V. RADIATION SAFETY
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The level of radioactivity at Enewetak Atoll, as reported in the AEC
Survey, is sufficiently low that persons may visit almost every location
there without fear of being exposed to radiation in excess of established
radiation protection guides.
Cleanup is needed, however, because these
guides would be exceeded if persons were to dwell throughout the Atoll.
Cleanup itself needs radiation safety precautions because possibilities
exist that previously undetected contamination will be uncovered, stockpilin
of contaminated debris will enhance local radiation intensity, and
cleanup activities will make plutonium more readily available for assimilati
before it is contained. The safety precautions will result from a
- cleanup radiation safety policy which complies with the Federal guides,
as well as makes every reasonable effort to maintain radiation exposure
‘. as low as is reasonably achievable taking into account the state of
technology and the economics of improvements in relation to benefits to
health and safety, a
and ether societal and socioeconomic considerations.
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Cleanup ‘is a “responsibility assigned to the Department of
Defense (DOD) and delegated to the Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA). Military
_ personnel from DOD will be assigned to perform the physical and radio~
logical cleanup for, and under the overall management of,
a DNA Joint
Task Group; accordingly, radiation safety will comply with military:
regulations insofar as is practical.
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2. The military radiological safety regulations will apply to
all individuals who are at Enewetak Atoll during the period of Cleanup.
Personnel not under control of DNA shali comply in all respects with the
regulations or be denied access to Enewetak Atoll.
The CleanupCommander
may permitvariances however, if, in his judgement, an essential task©
cannot otherwise be accomplished.
In such cases, adequate alternate
safety procedures will be established.
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C. RADIATION AREAS.
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A "radiologically controlled area” is a defined area in which
the exposure of personnel to ionizing radiation is under the supervision
'. of an individual responsible for radiation protection.
A “radiation area"
is a specific type of radiologically controlled area in which there exists
radiation at such levels that a major portion of the body could receive in
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northern islands listed in Enclosure 1 will be
bedesignated as controlled area
Radiationareas will be establishedonRunit(Yvonne), Lujor (Pearl) and the
northernhalf of Enjebi_ (Janet) as the AEC Survey showedcontaminated ~~~
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