.RADIOLOGICAL RESURVEY OF ANIMALS, SOILS AND
GROUNDWATER AT BIKINI ATOLL, 1969
INTRODUCTION
Bikini Atoll was a site for atmospheric tests of nuclear
devices from 1946 to 1958.
The population of 166 Bikinians was
moved from the atoll in March,
1946,
then to Kwajalein Atoll; in November,
made to Kili Island.
first to Rongerik Atoll,
1948,
a final move was
The land area at Kili is about one-tenth
that at Bikini Atoll and there is no lagoon.
Therefore, access
to Kili is difficult, often impossible, and sea foods are scarce.
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The results of a radiological resurvey of Bikini in 1964 by
the University of Washington's Laboratory of Radiation Biology
indicated that Bikini might be radiologically safe for permanent
habitation.
A request from the High Commissioner of the Trust
Territories of the Pacific to the Atomic Energy Commission in
1966 to rehabilitate Bikini resulted in an extensive survey of
the atoll in the spring of 1967.
radiation measurements,
This survey emphasized external
including in situ gamma-rey Spectrometry,
although some food items were collected to supplement data from
the 1964 survey.
The 1967 survey party included personnel from
the Atomic Energy Commission's Health and Safety Laboratory, the
Division of Biology and Medicine, the U. S. Naval Radiolo ical
Department 0 Energy
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