o a. .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, then to Kwajalein Atoll; made to Kili Island. 1946, in November, 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. to Kili is difficult, | often impossible, Therefore, access and sea foods are scarce. 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. This survey emphasized @xternal radiation measurements, including in situ gamma-ray 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 Radiological 5 0 0 | 3 7 y Department 0 Energy Historian’s Office ARCHIVES