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Defense Laboratory, the Trust Territory, and the University
of Washington.
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The data were summarized by DBM and were presented to a
panel of experts assembled by DBM for evaluation of potential
radiological hazards.
Most of the participants in the 19677
“survey attended the presentation to provide details not included
in the summary.
The panel concluded that Bikini could be safely reoccupied,
but recommended some restrictions and suggested things to be
done to rehabilitate the atoll.
These included restriction of
coconut crabs from the diet, because they contain high concentrations of sr, and covering the village area at Bikini rsland
with coral gravel from the beaches,
radiation from the soil.
to provide a shield against
The panel also recommended that old
structures and other such debris from the tests be removed from
the islands and beaches and that the island be further monitored
during the clean-up.
Additional monitoring was necessary because
dense vegetation on Bikini and Enyu Islets,
especially, made it
impractical to survey more than a few transects across the
islands in 1967.
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The panel's recommendations were made to the Chairman of
the Atomic Energy Commission who informed the Secretary of the
Interior,
Pacific.
the administrator for the Trust Territory of the
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