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Comments on Report:
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Assessment of Radiation Health Effects
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of the Resettlement of Enevetak Atoll Prepared by
M. A. Bender and A. B. Brill

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Karl Z. Morgan
School of Nuclear Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332

The following are a fev brief comments on this

report byM.

A. Bender

and ii.B. Brill dated October 12, 1979:

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1.

In general, this is an excellent report.

2.

The report accepts the dose measurements of Robinson et

al.

(1979) without providing the reader with any of the pertinent information needed so that he can judge its adequacy.

For example, there

is no breakdown of the dose between that which is external and that
which is internal.

There is no indication whether internal dose

values include a contribution from the actinide alpha-emitters, yet II
one would expect that some of the islands have appreciable quantities JI
of 239
Pu. It is not stated, but I assume their dose values are almost

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