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The Survey report, plus the Master Plan for Rehabilitation and resettlement of Er.ewetak Atoll*, provide SR-SCREREESComprehensive,
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and_upntondate-ascessmemt—of cheLiweay living patterns and diet of
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Several important components of the Enewetakese diet are either not
now available on the atoll, or are available in quantities which are
small compared to the needs of the people.
Pigs and chickens are not
available at all, but will be reintroduced.
No breadfruit is growing
now; pandanus and tacca are growing only in scattered locations; and
coconut is growing in quantity only on the southern islands.
Bread-
fruit, pandanus, tacca, and coconut must be planted and will begin
to produce crops after about eight years.
Radiation dose estimates for these foods have had to be based on
correlations with plants and animals now present on the atoll and on
inferences drawn from earlier surveys on Bikini and Rongelap.
There
are many data points, and these correlations provide the best method
currently available for estimating internal exposures.
Nevertheless,
the method is not as reliable as direct measurement of the foods
produced in the areas of concern.
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Air sampling at Enewetak, accomplished largely during a three
week period in December 1972 on uninhabited northern islands,
showed extremely low levels of airborne radioactivity.
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