acpositony COLLECTION LCL L HAS AOOd 4 ‘D6 é,/MV S BOX No. 4e 2o ra FOLDER Say feel Cowr? ep + 4 1919 TORY B wg FY 1999 DIRECTO INC. Adsain. Accitan ; 11973 Pact ct ThOD SER Safety & Environmental Protection Division A Pe OEE Doi bbw OFF, f goin oY TO: a r W. J. Stanley, Director U.S. Department of Energy/PASO P.O. Box 29939 Honolulu, HI A. "PFE MGT REPL PSEMOT.REP, CR an ro thong a2S ce 94690 Dear Bill: hut Recently, members of the Brookhaven National Laboratory Safety and Environmental Protection Division participated in our fifth Marshall Islands field survey for fiscal year 1979. concluded September 7, The survey began August 16, 1979, and 1979. Our trip objectives, as outlined in an August 14, 1979 correspondence with Harry Brown, were to provide personal monitoring services to the Rongelap and Utirik populations, conduct environmental sampling at several specific locations at each atoll and repair the wind-powered air sampling stations. During our eight-day stay in Kwajalein, our group rebuilt the whole body counting trailer, set up our electronics, assembled all the supplies necessary to repair the windmills and commenced the bioassay-whole body counting program by counting nine former Rongelap Atoll residents and two former Bikini Atoll residents who gurrently live on Ebeye. We also determined that a low voltage level problem existed and our a.c. line conditioner was not properly working. Chuck Otterman worked with us to determine where the line conditioner was malfunctioning, and crew members determined that the lower deck air conditioning systems were the cause of the voltage dips. The problem was solved by reducing the sensitivity of our equipment to low voltage and by turning off the air conditioners. Bythe time we arrived at Rongelap, we were well on our way towards a workable power use scheme. The ship arrived at Rongelap on Monday, August 27. Harry held a people's meeting where all aspects of our activities were discussed. Harry also reinforced a former BNL statement that the windmill apparatus would be given to the people in working order after we collected data for one year. By Thursday, August 30, a total of sixty-seven persons had been whole body counted and sixty-three persons had returned their bioassay sample bottles. In addition, the windmill generated electricity and was charging the battery bank plus we had collected coconut, pandanus and breadfruit from our selected sample sites. At the Thursday closeout meeting, Harry informed the Rongelap people that in general everyone's body burden of 137¢g had decreased from the last measurement and that objections to claims payment or the new schedule for payment would be reported to the Marshall Islands government. 905554} After the meeting we departed