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RADIOLOGICAL CLEANUP OF ENEWETAK ATOLL
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ERDA-NV office provided two distinctly different types of support to
the Enewetak Radiological Cleanup Project:
a. Base operations and maintenance support were furnished through
ERDA-PASO, directed by Mr. Stanley, and through II&N-PTD,
whose General Manager was Mr. Donald J. Brush. The ERDA-PASO
Site Representative position at Enewetak was manned by personnel
from their Hickam AFBoffice on a rotational, temporary-duty basis.
b. Radiological support for the cleanup project was managed by ERDANV as a project; i.e., the Enewetak Radiological Support Project
(ERSP). The ERSP Project Manager was Mr. Roger Ray, then
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Assistant Manager for Environment and Safety, ERDA-NV. ERSP
was organized as shown in Figure 3-13. Staff support was furnished by
ERDA-NV and ERDA-PASO as required. On-site operations were
directed by the Project Manager or, in his absence, one of the Deputy
Project Managers serving on rotational assignments. They were
assisted from time to time by technical representatives from the
ERDA-NV office.
Three ERDA-NVcontractors were assigned to the ERSP project:
a. EG&G, Inc. equipped, maintained, and operated van-mounted
radiation detection measurement and data recording systems. EG&G
also performed the reduction, analysis, and interpretation of data
from these systems.
b. Eberline Instrument Corporation (EIC) equipped, maintained, and
operated field analytical and instrument calibration laboratories.
c.
Desert
Kesearch Institute
assisted in the on-site interpretation
and mapping of data collected by EG&G. DRI also provided advice as
to sampling areas and arrays as requested by the Project Manager. 73
To comply with Congressional direction, enlisted specialists from the
Navy and Air Force were assigned to maintain radiological equipment and
to assist in the laboratory and in field survey work.
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through the filter cartridges and the tight facial contact. The anti-
contamination suits chosen were light-weight and cotton, thus providing
protection with minimal discomfort. None of these items had been used by
troops in a tropical atoll environment, but they were well tested and
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equipment operators, and because the face plates were set out from the
face to provide moreair circulation within the mask and hencegreater
wearer comfort, an important factor in the tropical climate. MI7 standard
military masks were not used because of possible plutonium migration
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On 2] June 1977, Mr. Albert E. Doles, of EIC, and two Navy and two Air
Force enlisted men deployed to the atoll and began establishing a
temporary laboratory facility at Enewetak Camp. Its initial capability was
limited to counting alpha, beta, and gamma radiation in soil and air
sanipler filters, pending delivery of the laboratory’s trailers (Figure 3-14).
On 27 June 1977, three Air Force Precision Measurement Equipment
Laboratory maintenance technicians arrived, established their shop, and
begancalibrating the instruments. 74
On I July 1977, the first in situ van (IMP) (Figure 3-15) arrived by air.
Inspection revealed a leak in the container of liquid nitrogen required to
cool the van’s germanium detector. The liquid nitrogen plants which Field
Command had obtained from the Air Force had not yet arrived. A Dewar
flask of liquid nitrogen was flown from Hawaii and, on I5July 1977, the
IMP wasin operation on Enjebi. 75
The first DRI statistician, Ms. Madaline Barnes, arrived at the atoll on 12
July 1977. The laboratory trailers arriv
n25 July 1977. Two more EIC
employees and the rest of the Navy and Air Force personnel arrived the
following week and began putting the trailers in order. The Radiation
Laboratory was operational on 24 August 1977, although construction on
some of its major facilities continued until 18 October 1977.76