Option If
a.
Return to the southern islands (ALVIN-KEITH).
b.
Agriculture limited to the southern islands.
c.
Travel restricted to the southern islands.
d.
No restrictions on fishing.
e.
No radiological cleanup.
This option (Row A of Tables 1-4) has a zero cost for radiological cleanup
that results in population doses well below the guides.
It differs from
later options in that it leaves the problems of contaminated scrap in many
areas of the Atoll, and the Pu in soil on YVONNE,
IRENE, and in the burial
sites on SALLY, plus generally contaminated areas on ALICE, BELLE, CLARA,
and PEARL, unresolved.
Such a choice would establish the need for off-limits
areas in perpetuity, at least for YVONNE, since the metallic Pu is expected
to be nresont on the surface sf the island indefiaiiely unless cleanup is
performed.
Under current conditions there is a potential for exposures exceeding
Federal standards through the inhalation pathway and the possibility of spread of
the contamination if access to the island is not controlled.
the current quarantine of the island.
This accounts for
Limiting all agriculture to the southern
islands is difficult to justify because some of the northern islands are lightly
contaminated.
From Tables 1-4, for example, it can be seen that limiting only
the growth of pandanus and breadfruit to the southern islands would permit ali
other subsistence agricultural practices on JANET-WILMA without the radiation
exposure criteria being exceeded.
Similarly, it is difficult to justify limiting
travel to the southern islands since the ambient gamma levels on the northern
islands do not represent a significant external exposure potential for
occasional visitation.
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