The clean-up phase of the rehabilitation of Bikini Atoll
was begun in February,
1969, by Joint nask Force Eight.
The AEC
Nevada Operations Office is responsible for certification of
the clean-up portion of the rehabilitation program, which was
carried out under guidelines approved by the AEC Division of
Operational Safety.
At the request of NVOO, the U. S. Public
Health Service took the responsibility for external radiation
measurements,
and for the collection and analysis of those land
plants which are food items; the U of W Laboratory of Radiation
Ecology was asked to sample and analyze other biological and
environmental samples.
This report presents the results of the
Laboratory's analyses.
SELECTION OF SAMPLES AND SAMPLING SITES
The sampling program was based on the objective of obtaining
data for evaluation of potential radiological hazards to man.
The samples were limited, for the most part, to things which
might be eaten by returning Bikinians, except for land plants.
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Some additional samples,
for example soils,
crater sediments and
ground water, were taken to provide data for estimating the future
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The fish collected are in two main categories:
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or "troll-caught" fish.
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the reef.
The reef fishes
are usually collected by throw nets by the Marshallese and are