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Field surveys. 3parting in May ba>8; Conard and Cohn (Co59), measured wholebody levels of
Cs,
Zn, and
Co in about 100 Rongelap adults, adolescents
and juveniles as part of the Brookhaven medical examination program. A shipborne portable whole-body counter with a standard chair geometry in a shielded
steel room was employed (Co63). Whole-body counts were obtained in the

Rongelap and Utirik populations in 1959 (Co60), 1961 (C062), 1965 (Co67), 1974
(Co75) and 1977 (Co80a). The counting geometry was converted to a scanning
type shadow-shield geometry starting in 1965 (Co67).
From 1978 to the present time, whole-body counting measurements were

performed with the bed-type shadow shield whole-body counter (Co67).

In 1980,

a standard chair geometry was once again used. All three counting systems
were intercalibrated and also calibrated against the large 54-detector wholebody counter at BNL.

Three body burden measurements of the Bikini Island population were
conducted from 1974 to 1978 at Bikini Island. In 1980, 1981, 1982, and 1983,

whole-body counting of the Enewetak population occurred.

Whole-body counting

in the field was done from a ship located in the lagoon of the atoll and

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