-In the cxtensive results from these 1964 surveys, the radioactivity was feeee p peeteermeee - found generally to be somewhat greater in the plants and marine life c Furthermore, radioactivity in the vicinity of previous nuclear tests was greater than ‘on islands remote Weapons Laboratory in July 1971 (E. L. Kinsey, 1973). were surveyed: The following islands Bogariik, Bogon (Irene), Fngebi (Janet), Eberira Aomon (Sally), Biijiri (Tilda), Rojoa (Ursula), and Runit (Yvonne). In general, the measured exposure rates were 0.002 mR/hr«to 1.2 mR/hr, the latter at the lip of Cactus crater on Runit. On Runit, readings of beta- and gamma-ray activity were taken everv 50 feet along four equally spaced traverses of the island, one 4,200 feet long. On Aomon the highest reading was 0.035 mR/hr, with an average of 0.015 mR/hr. In early May 1972 a team composed of Atomic Energy Commission and Environmental Protection Agency specialists conducted a brief radiological ‘survey of Runit Island (Kinsey, 1973). During the course of this survey, the AEC representative recommended to SAMTEC, the custodian of the Atoll, that this island be quarantined until a more detailed radiological survey could be made of the plutonium contamination on the ground at about the "waist'' of this long island and more could be learned about the-disposition of radiological materials and debris left from the previous nuclear test. ’ Se EROEN SOMEF re Oe ne HEROEE Cathe! Fp ee ene . The next extensive land-based survey was conducted by the Air Force times etter Se ee ae Oe ene ee He NE: 7 semeeoeion * | ewe ee 1971). (Beasley and Held, kn ree from tests (Welander, 1967), Measley and Held, 1969), + on Bikini Atoll than on Eniwetok Atoli. Following a meeting at AEC in Germantown, Maryland, on 30 June 1972, about this precautionary quarantine situation, a survey team from the 4 arom twice, TDG TORRENS9 tener- 1 £y, 23 ee AEC and the Department of Defense, along with the support from EPA,