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UNITED STATES
ATOMIC
ENERGY
AOR 193
COMMISSION
NEVADA OPERATIONS OFFICE
P.O. BOX
14100
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 89114
NOV 16 1970
H. J. Peyton, Chief
Construction Branch
Engineering & Construction Division
TRIP REPORT - W. K. STREENAN TO MICRONESIA - OCTOBER 16 THROUGH
OCTOBER 30, 1970
The purpose of the trip was to accompany Dr. R. A. Conard of Brook-
haven National Laboratory, to Hawaii and Micronesia and to assist
him on making arrangements with the various organizations in the
Pacific to support the forthcoming AEC Bio-Med Survey of the exposed
Rongelap people.
Dr. Conard heads a group of doctors and technicians
which conducts an annual medical examination of the Marshalleze
people who were accidentally exposed to fallout radiation in 1954.
The 1971 survey is scheduled to be conducted during the last half of
February and the first three weeks of March 1971. Medical exami-
nations will be performed on the islands of Rongelap, Utirik,
Majuro and Ebeye. In addition, urine samples will be taken from the
Bikini people living on the island of Kili.
Dr. Conard also wanted to examine a Rongelapesi girl named
now
living on the island of Jaluit to ascertain if the girl needs immed-
late thyroid surgery.
In case surgery is required, it is planned to
send
to Tripler General Hospital in Honolulu where Dr. Dobyns
of Cleveland would perform the operation.
Dr. Conard had made tentative arrangements with the US Army in Washington to use the Tripler
facilities.
Other items Conard wanted to discuss with the Trust Territory people
were the inconvenience payment to the Utirik people resulting from
the temporary movement away from their homes in 1954 and the hiring
and payment of an individual to assist with the thyroid treatment of
the exposed Rongelap people.
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I departed Las Vegas at 7:30 a.m. October 16, and arrived in Honolulu
at 12:30 p.m. and went to the AEC-PASO office where I met with Bill
Hills and Joe Dryden and outlined the schedule and requirements for
' the survey and the support needed from Holmes & Narver, Pacific Test
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