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BUDGET AND REPORTING CODE

Marshall Islands Radiological

HA-02-01-02 |

Safety Program

CONTRACTOR NAME
Associated Universities, inc.

20a.

CODE
BNL

DATE PREPARED

03/31/80

WP NUMBER

TASK NO,

REV. NO.
0

Facility Requirements.

It is anticipated that work for this proposal will use existing Laboratory
Facilities and site utility services.
20b.

Publications.

Greenhouse, N.A., Miltenberger, R.P., Lessard, E.T.
Measurements at Bikini Atoll, BNL 51003, January 1979.

External Exposure

Greenhouse, N.A.
Dosimetry Methods and Results for the Former Residents of
Bikini Atoll, BNL 26797, November 1979,
Miltenberger, R.P., Greenhouse, N.A., Lessard, E.T.
Results for Inhabitants of the Northern Marshall Islands:
Physics, in press.
Miltenberger,

R.P., Lessard,

E.T., Greenhouse,

N.A.

Whole Body Counting
1974-1978, Health

Dietary Radioactivity

Intake from Bioassay Data: A Model Applied to \37e5 Intake by Bikini Island
Residents, Health Physics, in press.
20c,.

Purpose.

The primary purpose of this program is to measure and evaluate the internal
and external doses to people living on those islands in the Marshalls group which
were impacted by tropospheric fallout from United States atmospheric nuclear tests
in the Pacific.

Its objectives

are:

a.
Direct or indirect measurement of radionuclide body burdens and resultant
doses and dose commitments.
b.

Measurement of external

radiation environments and

the total doses to individuals and island populations.

their contributions

to

c.
Evaluation of dietary habits and living patterns insofar as they relate
to the elucidation of exposure pathways and the determination of doses.
20d.

Background.

This program was initiated in 1974 at the request of the AEC (DOS) in anticipation of potential radiation exposures'to the returning Bikini population,
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Approach.

Internal and external doses will be imeasured and evaluted using accepted and
up-to-date health physics practices.

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