407911 COMMENTS ON THE MARCH 1978 DRAFT OF "ASSESSMENT OF POTENTIAL DOSES TO POPULATION FROM THE TRANSURANIC RADIONUCLIDES AT ENIWETOK ATOLL" By W. L. Robison, W. A. Phillips and V. E. Noshkin The following are specific comments from several members of the Advisory Group on Cleanup of Eniwetok Atoll. The redundancy in these comments serves to indicate areas of special concern to the reviewers. The report is well done and the authors are to be complimented. The comments are directed more toward the inadequacies of the data available to do a dose assessment than on the methods used by the authors. Apparently in the interest of keeping the size of the report down, much of the details of the dose assessments were excluded. These details would have been very helpful to the Advisory Group in reviewing the report. The only other major criticisms are directed to: the report's selection of assumptions and data that maximize the dose estimates rather than the selection of assumptions and data that would yield most probable dose estimates; the lack of sufficient statements about the uncertainties of the data base for the doses; and the lack of attention given subgroups within the population, (e.g., infants, children) and the maximum dose individual. The authors should be invited to direct questions regarding the comments to the Advisory Group. p.2, line 7. It is not clear what the quantity and quality of the more recent data, i.¢., what new data is now available that emphasizes coconuts as the limiting route for transuranics. por ARCTUBY