The clean-up phase of the rehabilitation of Bikini Atoll
was begun in February,

1969, by Joint nask Force Eight.

The AEC

Nevada Operations Office is responsible for certification of
the clean-up portion of the rehabilitation program, which was
carried out under guidelines approved by the AEC Division of
Operational Safety.

At the request of NVOO, the U. S. Public

Health Service took the responsibility for external radiation
measurements,

and for the collection and analysis of those land

plants which are food items; the U of W Laboratory of Radiation

Ecology was asked to sample and analyze other biological and
environmental samples.

This report presents the results of the

Laboratory's analyses.
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The sampling program was based on the objective of obtaining
data for evaluation of potential radiological hazards to man.
The samples were limited, for the most part, to things which
might be eaten by returning Bikinians, except for land plants.

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Some additional samples,

for example soils,

crater sediments and

ground water, were taken to provide data for estimating the future
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The fish collected are in two main categories:
' fish and the pelagic,

or "troll-caught" fish.

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the reef.

The reef fishes

are usually collected by throw nets by the Marshallese and are

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