e The survey report, plus the Master Plan for Rehabilitation and resettlement of Enewetak Atoll*, provide information on possible
living patterns and diet of the Enewetak people.
e Several important components of the Enewetakese diet are either not
now available on the Atoll, or are available in quantities which are
small compared to the needs of the people.
available at all, but will be reintroduced.

Pigs and chickens are not
No breadfruit is growing

now; pandanus and tacea are growing only in scattered locations; and
coconut is growing in quantity only on the southern islands.

Bread-

fruit, pandanus, tacca, and coconut must be planted and will begin

to produce crops after about 8 years.

Radiation dose estimates for

these foods have had to be based on correlations with plants and
animals now present on the Atoll and on inferences drawn from
earlier surveys on Bikini and Rongelap.

There are many data points,

and these correlations provide the best method currently available
for estimating internal exposures.

Nevertheless, the method is not

as reliable as direct measurement of the foods produced in the areas
of concern.
oe Air sampling at Enewetak, accomplished largely during a 3 week period
in December 1972 on uninhabited northern islands, showed extremely
low levels if airborne radioactivity.

Comprehensive air sampling

during 12 consecutive months under conditions closely approximating

human habitation and soil disturbance would provide more accurate
data on which to base inhalation exposure estimates.

*The report, "“Enewetak Atoll Master Plan for Island Rehabilitation and
Resettlement,'' (3 Vols.), Holmes and Narver, Inc., Nov. 1973, contains
information on the preferred living pattern for resettlement of Atoll
obtained prior to completion of the AEC evaluation of radiological survey

findings..

The people are to be given another opportunity to express their

views on the remedial actions under consideration by the AEC after they
have been informed of radiological conditions

in the Atoll,

and the

subjects of radiation exposure, radiation standards, radiation protection
objectives, and remedial measures and their effectiveness have been discussed.
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