ENEU ISLAND DOSE ASSESSMENT Plans are already underway Island. for the Bikinians to establish a presence on Eneu Thus, an updated dose assessment for Eneu Island is needed. The 1981 assessment was based on limited data. is available Atol 1. A greatly expanded data base for Eneu Island as a result of the continuing program at Bikini Also, major resettlement will not occur before 1988. Other refinements will be made in the new assessment. For example, open air gamma exposure rates were used to estimate wholebocly external doses in 1981. In the new assessment, we will account for shielding by houses and by crushed coral put around the houses. Data for some food items are now available which were estimated, high, in the 1981 assessment. and estimated The end product will be a more realistic estimate of the doses a returning population might receive at Eneu Island. This can be accomplished 31 in FY 1987.