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- ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES, INC. UPTON, LL, N.Y. 11973
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
TELEPHONE: (516) 345-3577
September 2, 1976
Dr. W. W. Burr, Jr.
Deputy Director
Division of Biomedical & .
Environmental Research
U.S. Energy Research and
Development Administration
Washington, D.C. .20545
Dear Bill,
With regard to the plutonium problem on Bikini we would like to
bring you up to date on (1) sample collections planned for Sept.-Oct,
survey in the Marshalls; (2) samples still being analyzed from previous
surveys, and (3) summary Tables of previous data comparing Rongelap and
Utirik findings.
Samples for Sept.-Oct. 1976:
Urines 1. Bikini: 5 gal. carboys on
5 individuals (carboys distributed last June); also 5 - 5 gal. pooled
samples; 2. Rongelap: 5 - 5 gal pooled samples; 3.
Utirik: 5 - 5 gal.
pooled samples; 4. Wotje: 5 - 5 gal. pooled samples; 5. Ebeye:
5 > gai. pooled samples; 6. Majuro: 5 - 5 gal. pooled samples and samples
on 50 Bikini people planning to returm in the near future, You will
note we are collecting samples from a number of atolls not directly
envolved in the 1954 fallout.
Whole body gamma spectroscopy on Bikini peopie (for 13765 body
burdens) originally planned for October are being delayed until April
in hope that the advance group of Eniwetak people will have retumed
to their atoll and can also be counted during that operation.
N. Greenhouse, J. Naidu and V. Nelson plan on collecting soil and
plant samples in Sept.-Oct. from Wotje, Ailuk, Utirik, Rongelap and
Bikini.
Samples presently being analyzed are animal samples (pig, chickens,
crabs from Rongelap and Bikini, water from Bikini cisterns, soil from
Rongelap.
Autoradiographs for alpha tracks of animal lung and Liver
tissues are being run,
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