Eight of the most highly qualified experts available “were asked to review the survey material. After meeting with members of the survey team and examining their reports, these consultants reached the unanimous conclusion that it would be radiologically safe to allow the Bikini people to return to their home atoll. While Bikini is best known as a weapons testing site, it has also contributed significantly to mar's knowledge of the long term effects of radiation on an environment. During the years when radiation levels were too high for people to live there permanently, the AEC sponsored several scientific studies on the atoll. In fact, Bikini truly served as a liviny ecological laboratory. Before it was either a proving ground or laboratory, though, Bikini was a home land. Having been closely associated with nuclear energy, and Bikini, for all these years, I.find it particularly gratifying now to take part in the atoll's return to usefulness as a home for the Bikinian people. Copies of the technical data from the survey are available for examination at the Public Document Room in AEC's Washington office at 1717 H Street.