RMI Nuclear Justice Documents

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This

is recommended

with

provisos

that:

values
should not be used for
amount of the numerical
e-lusting
exposures
from a single man-made
source,
in this
This is applied
so
case radioactivity
from weapons
tests.
that the Enewetak
people w-ill not be denied benefits
of future
nuclear
technology
because
they are receiving
exposures
from
man-made
‘radiation
at the maxtium
level of acceptable
standards.

1. The full

followwp
surveys
and studies of radioactivity
2. Env-iro.nmental
levels
in people are performed
such that the full range of
radiation
exposures
of indi~idual
members
of the Enewetak
population
will be known.
30 IXposures
practicable
Survey,

Cleanup,

It is recommended
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of the Enewetak
level.

people

and Re.habi~itablon
in this

context

are

kept

to the minimum

E\-aluation
that:

The FRC Radiation
Protection
Guide (RPG’s)
for individuals
should
The requirement
is to assure
be used as the basic
standard.
that exposures
for continuous
residence
in Enewetak
Atoll till
be well w+thin the annual and 30-year
criterion.
While these
are conservati~-e
standards
from a health \riew point, there is
no built-in
conservatism
to account for uncertainty
in prediction
of annual exposures
to indi>tiduals.
Because
of the
complex
circumstances
of exposure
and the many pathways,
each with its uncertainty,
the Task Group recommends
use
of 50 percent
of the FRC annual staric?ards for evaluation
of
the many cleanup and rehabilitation
alternatives
at Enewetak
Atoll.
This is not to be ~tiewed as an attempt to establish
new
standards
but is considered
to be a necessary
precaution
in
‘Ike foilowing
values apply
of current
standards.
the application
of alternatives:
for evaluation
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Bone marrow
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