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were from former Bikini Atoll residents not counted before and the remaining

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spectra were from a comparison group who nad never resided on Bikini Atoll.

A quality assurance program similar to that employed at Enewetak was used.
Review of the historic Bixini whole-body counting data indicated no effects on

body~burden assessnent due to reconfiguration of the shielding and detector.

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secutive measurements of a former 3ikini resident's body burden allowed computation
of individual long-terna diological removal rate constants.
This data along with
the methodology were written up and issued in a primary scientific publication.
At Kilt Island chere were former Bikini residents whose Cs-137 body burden
remained unchanged or increased.
Reasons for this nuclide being present in their
current diet were investigated.
This work showed that these burdens were within
three standard deviations of the mean burden of the comparison population except in

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