-xamunun me BEE wPWHEERE EH BE BREAK ABSTRACT The Bikini were removed in people 1946 wish to to make resettle way for a Bikini Atoll, from U. nuclear weapons S. which they testing program. The hazard of radionuclide crops. The resettlement in the soil waters Strontium-90 the lagoon a almost entirely which may contaminate of plays stems minor and role, but the ground water and surrounding some from cesium-137, a ocean details are are food "clean". stil? under investigation. a Contamination aside, only two of the atoll's 23 islands are physically and historically suitable for permanent settlement, Bikini (2.4 km), the traditional site, and Eneu (1.2 km<) which has been an ancillary one. On the basis islands may be of the visited Federal now. radiation Eneu may be protection resettled, but depending on have to during the initial years of resettlement. Bikini may be resettled with the period of 80 foods years, are to by be which grown time imported, all population size some food at least would proviso that no be standards, especially nor ground water consumed spontaneous decay will have for a reduced cesium-137 to permissible levels. The Bikini-Kili Council that the foregoing has informed the Committee (August 14, 1984) alternatives are unacceptable because Bikini Island would not be decontaminated. The Committee has considered courses of action that attack the problem directly by removing the top 30 cm of Bikini's soil. The spp il would be disposed of either by the creation of a narrow, peripheral land strip on the crater -in seaward lagoon. 5000006 side The of the island, execution of or such by dumping plans it would into take a 2-4 years the and