. UNCLASSIFIED . PAGE OS. - «STATE 207953 “CYNCE INLAND AREAS HAD NOT BEEN CONSIDERED FoR RESIDENTIAL FUPPOSES BEFORE, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT DECIDED TO CONDUCT A PILL RADLOLOGICAL SURVEY BEFORE THE START OF INLAND CONSTRUCTION . | “THF SURVEY, COMPLETED IN JUNE, 1975, REVEALED THAT THE INTERIOR COULD NOT BE USED FOR RESIDENTIAL PURPOSES, IT a.cO SHOVEND THAT FOOD PLANTS WERE RECYCLING RADIONUCLIDES FROM THE ISLANDS SOIL. | | ~ *"FOON SUSSINIES HAVE BEEN PROVIDED0 BIKINT RESIDENTS SINCE 1972 AND AFTER THE 1975 SURVEY THEY WERE CAUTIONED NOT TO EAT LOCALLY-Grown FOODS, “FISH IN THE WATERS AROUND BIKINI ARE THOUGHT TO SE SAFE JO £AT, BUT FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND COCONUT CRASS FOUND ON THE ISLAND ARE CONTAMINATED. | “In NOVEMBER, 1977, THE TRUST TERRITORY GOVERNMENT | a INSTITUTED A CoM PLETE FEEDING PROGRAM FOR ALL RESIDENTS ® SIKINi. , “REGULAR HEALTH MONITORING IN APRIL OF THIS. YEAR REVEALED AY INCREASE IN THE LEVEL OF CESIIM-137 IN THE BODIES OF SIME BIKINIANS DESPITE THE DIET OF IMPORTED FOODSTUFFS, “THE POTENTIAL DANGER IS CONSIDERED TO BE MUCH MORE SERIOUS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND SINCE NEARLY HALF OF THE ISLANDS CURRENT RESIDENTS ARE UNDER FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE,. FARLY RELOCATION OF THE ENTIRE POPULATION WAS GIVEN A HIGH PRIORITY BY TRUST TERRITORY AND INTERIOR DEPARTMENT (FFICIALS, . | “IN JUNE OF THIS YEAR HIGH COMMISSIONER WINKEL TRAVELED TO PIKINI TO REPORT THE HEALTH MONITORING FINDINGS TO THE UNCLASSIFIED an A erent : ee ee ee ee ee om we oe - ee ei oo ee Te ee _— us , ~ mers anes ease way “EE ai Bb ay poet + 7 i wee Was 5 re ee ng 5 aOpe eg . ~*~ woes eon =: me segew 9 en “e sone . 1 Orig Fee ee t 7 ~ ce ae s - i eretee St pee deoy yea _ om