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RADIOLOGICAL RESURVEY OF ANIMALS, SOILS AND
GROUNDWATER AT BIKINI ATOLL, 1969
INTRODUCTION
Bikini Atoll was a site for atmospheric tests of nuclear
devices from 1946 to 1958.
The population of 166 Bikinians was
moved from the atoll in March,
1946,
then to Kwajalein Atoll; in November,
made to Kili Island.
first to Rongerik Atoll,
1948,
a final move was
The land area at Kili is about one-tenth
that at Bikini Atoll and there is no lagoon.
to Kili is difficult,
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often impossible,
Therefore, access
and sea foods are scarce.
The results of a radiological resurvey of Bikini in 1964 by
indicated that Bikini might be radiologically safe for permanent
habitation.
A request from the High Commissioner of the Trust
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the University of Washington's Laboratory of Radiation Biology
Territories of the Pacific to the Atomic Energy Commission in
1966 to rehabilitate Bikini resulted in an extensive survey of
the atoll in the spring of 1967.
This survey emphasized external
radiation measurements, including in situ gamma-ray spectrometry,
although some food items were collected to supplement data from
the Atomic Energy Commission's Health and Safety Laboratory,
the
Division of Biology and Medicine, the U. S. Naval Radiological
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The 1967 survey party included personnel from
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the 1964 survey.