ENEU ISLAND DOSE ASSESSMENT
Plans are already underway
Island.
for the Bikinians to establish a presence on Eneu
Thus, an updated dose assessment
for Eneu Island is needed.
The 1981 assessment was based on limited data.
is available
Atol 1.
A greatly expanded data base
for Eneu Island as a result of the continuing
program at Bikini
Also, major resettlement will not occur before 1988.
Other refinements will be made in the new assessment.
For example, open air
gamma exposure rates were used to estimate wholebocly external doses in 1981.
In the new assessment, we will account for shielding by houses and by crushed
coral put around the houses.
Data for some food items are now available which
were estimated,
high, in the 1981 assessment.
and estimated
The end product
will be a more realistic estimate of the doses a returning population might
receive at Eneu Island.
This can be accomplished
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in FY 1987.