the Pacific Basia Study,
comtnenced in 1975.
a collaborative effort with Nelson of UWLRE which ad
During Mav,
another field trip to ‘fajuro and Xili vas com-
pleted by ‘filtenberger and Lessard.
They whole-body counted 129 persons,
of which had been relocated from Bikini Island in August of 1978.
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The whole-
bod counts on Marshallese psersons other than the forner 3ikinians provided
Saseline body burden and urine radionuclide excretion rate data
for comparison
purnoses.
During August and September 1979, Miltenberger, Lessard,
and Jillingham of BNLSEP,
3alsamo, Hunt
Sherwin of Enertech Corporation, and Rademacher of
St. Mary's College, participated in a field trip.
They re-established the air
sampling programs at Kwajalein, Rongelap and Utirik, continued the routine environmental monitoring program at Rongelap and Utirik and continued the whole-
bod; counting programs formerly performed by BNL medical.
Rongelap,
At Utirik and
Brown of DOE Pacific Area Support Office (PASO) restated a former
BNL promise.
He said that the electric generating windmill apparatus would be
given to the people in working order following collection of air sampling data
for one year.
During this trip, 150 whole=body counts and 146 urine samples
had been collected.
tricity.
Coconut,
selection sites.
In addition,
the windmills were left generating elec-
pandanus and breadfruit had been obtained from traditional
Brown of DOEPASO, Otterman of US Oceanography, and
“iltenberger and Lessard of BNLSEP prepared sketches and plans for a new
whole~body counting trailer.
tars.
The new design incorporated two chair type coun-
Their design maximized the use of available equipment and space,
mininized the discomfort of the Marshallese and eliminated many of the pre-
vious trailer design deficiencies.
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