Sreokhaven now has 26 years of medical research findings and experience in the field with the secple of Rongelap and Utirik. It is rechrded, therefore, as essantial shat anv health care orcanization chat Eevelocs 35) < eo ta SF 1.9 heals: aa * she seonle o - " acted B13" with the Medical Depar=ment of the 3rocokhaven Natipnal x Labortory on sast and current medicalactivities,aswell as sekommendations for she future. It is estimated that costs to the MedicalSer nent of Brookhaven National Laboratory <9 participate in this shase of Fhe soe Blanosag will in $50, 0. The basic egntsact—mist—incuce. reimbursement funds for the 3rookhaven Nakio any laboratory for participation ia.the cverall heaithslan contrack. The Brookhaven medical sregqram for the people of Rongelap and Oo basically has been a medical research program, Sut this mandatal ik has, of necessity, cver the years seen sxpanded to include care of non-Fadiation related diseases. This has bean cccasioned by the lack in the Bast of adecuate primary medical care in the Marshall Islands. In 1354, 94 Rengelapese were expesed to fallout. Of these 84 driginally exposed individuals, 50 are still living. There are aiso seme B00 to 600 unexposed Rongelapese, made up of descendants of the exposq@i group plus the Marshallese who have Rongelapese Slcod or marriage affiliation. About 500 of the unexposed Songelapese have Seen used on cccasibn as a “comparison” group to the exposed population. The original Utirik exposed group consisted of 158 individuals] 120 still are alive. Another 500 unexposed Utirixese, of the exposed group and Marshallese with Utirik blood affiliation, also fall into the Utirik catagory. Some larger group have Seen studied as a “comparison” group Utirikese. of which mace up bs descendants or marriage 375 of this to the @cposed (>) Bikiad Bikini Atoll was the site of 23 U.S. atmospheric tests. The 1790 Bixinians resident there in 1946 were removed from the atoll in March 1946 srior to the start of the tasting program. After several years of v unsatisfactory resettlement efforts in other sarts cof the Northern Marshalls, |the Bikinians were resetcled in March 1348 on the isolated island gf Kiii in the southern Marshalls. Thus, from March 1548 onward the main|>ocy of the people of Bikini have lived well outside the zone of the lear tasts.