IV.

RADIATION SAFETY
A.

GENERAL.

The level of radioactivity at Enewetak Atoll,
Radiological Survey,

as reported in the AEC

is sufficiently low that persons may visitalmost

every location there without

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fear’of being exposed to radiation in excess

of established radiation protection guides.

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Cleanup is needed, however,

because these guides would be exceeded if persons were to dwell throughout
the Atoll.

Cleanup itself needs radiation safety precautions because

possibilities exist that previously undetected contamination will be
uncovered,

stockpiling of contaminated debris will enhance local radiation

intensity, and cleanup activities will make plutonium more readily available for assimilation before it is contained.

The safety precautions will

resuit from a cleanup radiation safety policy which complies with the

established guides, as well as makes every reasonable effort to maintain
radiation exposure as low as is reasonable achievable taking into account
the state of technology and the economics of improvements in relation to
benefits to health and safety, and other societal and socioeconomic
considerations.

B.

APPLICABILITY.
l.

Cleanup is a responsibility assigned to the Department of

Defense and delegated to the Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA).

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personnel wii: be assigned to perform the physical and radiological
cleanup for,
Group.

under the overall management of, a DNA Joint Task

Alth...h support will also come from other military services,

federal agencies, and contractors,

"Army Job."

the Cleanup will be primarily an

Accordingly, radiation safety will comply with Army Regulations

insofar as is practical.

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