FY 1975
The Marshall Islands Radiological Safety Program was
formally initiated.
Funding levels were $125,000 for operating and $20,000 for capital equinment.
Staffing levels were 1.5 man years scientific and professional and 1.0 man
year technical support.
Greenhouse directed the program.
Arrangements were
made to upgrade the BNLHYPS analytical lab with the additions of a computer
based multi-channel analyzer and a high efficiency GeLi detector.
Greenhouse and Nelson, in a joint UWLRE/BNLIIPS field trip to the
Northern Marshalls in December 1974, collected environmental samples and made
external radiation measurements at Rongelap, Utirik, Rongerik and Bikini Atolls.
Greenhouse, Williams, and Kuehner of BNLHPS,
Reilly of the State of Pen-
usylvania, Davis of Pacific Gas and Electric, and Nelson of UWLRE participated
ia an April 1975 field trip to Bikini Atoll.
They collected samples and de-
fined the external radiation environments of Bikini and Enue Islands.
Limited
soil and vegetation sampling were done at Bikini and comparison environmental
samples were collected at Wotho and Kwajalein Atolls.
This field trip es~-
tablished the groundwork for a major interagency survey of Bikini and Enue
Islands in June in which Greenhouse participated.
groundwater and some vegetation sampling.
This survey included soil,
It was performed jointly by LLL,
UWLRE, the Environmental Protection Agency, and BNLHPS.
Their primary ob-
jective was selection of locations for the second increment of house con-
struction on Bikini and Enue Islands by the Department of the Interior.
FY 1976
Funding levels were $172,000 operating and $20,000 capital equipment.
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Staffing levels were 2.0 man years scientific and professional and 1.0 man