ENEWETAK POST-CLEANUP DOSE ASSESSMENTS
Final dose assessments for Enewetak Atoll cleanup must satisfy
the following requirements;
1.
There must be a final dose assessment for residents living
in the southern islands, assuming they return in 1980,
taking all of the terrestrial portion of their diet from
islands in the south including the southeast except for
birds and eggs (with and without imports), with the marine
portion derived from any location in the lagoon.
Both an
average diet and a diet for drought conditions with no
imported food available and use of lens water for drinking
should be used.
The predictions should treat the dynamic
situation of increased amounts of local foods becoming
available with time.
There must be a final dose assessment for residents living
in the northern islands including Leroy.
Both residences
on Janet Island and on Sally-Tilda-Ursula must be treated
assuming the return occurs in 1980.
It should be assumed
that most terrestrial foods in the diet of northern island
residents will come from their village island (or island
complex for interconnected islands), but some of the foods,
particularly coconut products, will come from other northern
islands where pre-cleanup or post-cleanup transuranium element levels will allow planting of subsistence coconuts.
Both an average diet and diet for drought conditions with
no imports and use of lens water for drinking should be
treated.
It should be assumed that the marine diet items
come from the northern portion of the lagoon,
Post-cleanup external radiation levels will be used in the northern
islands assessments where such cleanup of soil and scrap
reduces the levels.
Included in.the Janet and in the
Sally-Tilda-Ursula assessments will be a dose estimate for
residents of the highest wato having the highest soil
radioactivity levels.
3.
There must be a final dose assessment, a variation of (1)
above, that assumes that subsistence coconuts are planted
on six northeastern islands
(Aej, Lujor, Aomon, Bijire,
Lojwa, and Alembel) and that coconuts from these islands
will be used for food by some of those who live in the
south.
What is needed is a dose estimate for that category of individual (most likely those who work to make
copra from these islands) who would be expected to receive
the highest doses from northern island coconut in their diet.
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