dumping.
The Enewe wk materia:
is w2hl withii. che quidelinsas
proposed,
and ocean dumping weuld result in no Significant
radiological hazard to man or marine organisms.
(I snould
point out that I was chairman and United States representative
on a recent I.A.E.A.
panel
(June 13-17,
1977)
to redefine the
radiological basis of the London Convention for the United
Nations Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization).
The discussion then moved to the rationale for the cl2anup.
The participants could see the necessity to remove contaminated
concrete,
metal,
ground disposal sites from the Islangs and
place this in some form of controlled state on Runit.
to
However,
they were not convinced that the rationale for removing soil
From the islands was based on accevtable assumptions,
resuspension problem,
tnose assumptions.
1.@e.,
a
nor had any attempt been made to validate
The need for a resuspension research program _
rather than an jnadequate monitoring program was called for.
Additionally,
the guidelines proposed for levels of plutonium
in soil appeared to conflict with recently proposed federal
guidelines and the basis
clear.
for a double standard was not made
While it was accepted that the decisions to conduct this
operation were complicated and had been made over the last two
years,
the consensus was that the soil removal aspect and the
attendant disposal should be immediately re-evaluated.
A number
of participants were sufficiently concerned that they prepared
a draft memorandum, which Bill Burr agreed to bring to the
attention of the AES
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A considerable time was spent discussing the Bikini Isiand
problem.
While it.ais obvious that there have been,
always will be considerable political,
pressures
to
resettle
the islanders,
are,
and
economic and social
I was not convinced
that _
sufficient technical and scientific discussions had neen
‘conducted to come to a decision acceptable to or for the
islanders.
The indications are that the present inhabitants
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