i Major Descriptors: *COBALT -- RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; *GUAM -- MINERAL RESOURCES; *MANGANESE -- RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; *MARIANA ISLANDS -MINERAL RESOURCES Descriptors: AVAILABILITY; ECONOMICS; FORECASTING; OCEANIC CRUST Broader Terms: EARTH CRUST; ELEMENTS; ISLANDS; MARIANA ISLANDS; METALS; NORTH AMERICA; RESOURCES; TRANSITION ELEMENTS; TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS; USA -- Energy Planning & Policy -- Energy Subject Categories: 290400* Resources (Item 147 from file: 103) 10/5/447 02095224 NOV-88-088392; EDB-88-037947 Title: Bikini revisited Author(s): Kohn, H.I. Affiliation: Bikini Atoll Rehabilitation Committee, Berkeley, CA 94709 Title: 1203 Shattuck Ave., Thirty-third annual meeting of the Radiation Research Society (Abstracts) Conference Title: 33. annual scientific meeting of the Radiation Research Society ” Conference Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA Conference Date: 5 May 1985 Publisher: Radiation Research Society,Philadelphia, PA Publication Date: Report Number(s): 1985 p 109 CONF-8505113- Document Type: Analytic of a Book; Conference literature Language: English Journal Announcement: EDB8801 Subfile: INS (US Atomindex input). NOV (DOE contractor) Country of Origin: United States Country of Publication: United States Abstract: In 1946 the U.S. Government removed the inhabitants of Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands so that a 22-year weapons-testing program could be carried out. The tests contaminated to varying degrees the soil of the Atoll’s 30 the Atoll’s present status. of Congress, islands (total area, 7.4 sq km). All islands may be visited now, may not be settled owing to the risk of eating food coconut) that At the request the Bikini Atoll Rehabilitation Committee has reported on is contaminated with cesium-137 but (especially and strontium-90. some Fish meat is not a problem. Spontaneous decay will decontaminate the ’’ food risk’’ areas within 80 years or so. A direct solution to the problem would be topsoil removal. High-potassium fertilizer may diminish cesium uptake by plants. The feasibility and cost of such methods will be described. At the time of emigration (1946), the Bikinians numbered 167; today (1984) there are more than 1100 (probably, half under age 16 years). Planning for resettlement will involve particular attention to water supply (a problem in the Marshalls) and to the limitations of local food production at Bikini Atoll. Major Descriptors: *BIKINI -- EVALUATION; *BIKINI -- GOVERNMENT POLICIES; *BIKINI -- LAND POLLUTION; *BIKINI -- RISK ASSESSMENT; *BIKINI -- WATER POLLUTION; *BIKINI -- WATER QUALITY; *CESIUM 137 -- RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; *PLANTS -- BIODEGRADATION; *STRONTIUM 390 -RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION Descriptors: COCONUTS; CONTAMINATION; COST OVERRUNS; PLANNING; SURFACE CONTAMINATION; UPTAKE Broader Terms: ALKALI METAL ISOTOPES; ALKALINE EARTH ISOTOPES; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CESIUM ISOTOPES; ° CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CONTAMINATION; COST; DECOMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; FOOD; FRUITS; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; ISLANDS; ISOTOPES; MARSHALL ISLANDS; MICRONESIA; NUCLEI; OCEANIA; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; POLLUTION; RADIOISOTOPES; STRONTIUM ZSOTOPES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES Subject Categoties: Health, 510300 & Safety 290300* -- Environment, -- Energy Planning & Policy -- Environment, Terrestrial -- Radioactive Materials Monitoring 5003199