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“ENHANCING PROSECT CREDIBILITY
THROUCE INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENTS
Significant raciolocical aspects of the cleanup porticn
of tne Enewecak Atoll project have not teen incese ndently
" assessec by organizetions with ne connecticn o r interest in
‘the nuclear testing sregram.
This situation cezld conceivaaly
raise questions on the objectivity of the ereject.
Independent assessments are, in our opinicn, unequivocally dictated
by the imsortance of the project ts the ceccies si Enewetax
'ané the United States.
Supeerting chis is the recent Bikini
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sneisent; the uncertain, iong-cern effeczts of exsesure to low
level radiation; anc finally the sroject cost, which is estimated at asout S$ics million.
CLEANUP CRITERIA
EPA is respensicie for establishine suiéance cn radia-
‘tien cose
limits
for sersons exccsec
to radioactive elements
in che ceneral envirecnment.
In 1974 it eccected, in ceneral,
che raciolccicai cleznes criteria for Enewetak Atoll with ,
tne stipuleticon
that the criteria sheult se consicere¢ as
uccer limits and that the cleanup lavels and serclation
Cosés shouls ce kest as low @s srecsticasilse.
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. in Seoremcer :6°7 ESR suclisnec sreccsec suicance on
Sose limits for perssns execsed te transuranic ¢lements.
CCr's acvisory ¢crous cn the claanur criteria celieves the
Enewetak ciéanur criteria wil. resvit in averzce transuranic
raciaticn Goses to ths returning recple commensurate with
the procesec EPA guifslines.
But, it stated that it coule
moc assure that the raciation doses woslc not siinivicantly
@xcesc the rrescsec IFA suidelines.
It scintes sut the uncerzainties inherent in the cresent understandins cf radia-
zicn problems.
Fursner, it eévised ICE tnat many ci chs
Zscters invelved in rtevement sf transuranizs in whe envircenment ané the cistesition and restantion cf transuranics in
Rumen
ceinss
are
not well estaclisnedc.
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