Our earlier Assessment
October 12,
1979)
was
based
(National
upon
the
Cytogenetics,
"Preliminary
Reassessment of the Potential Radiological Doses for
Residents Resettling Enewetak Atoll
UCID-19219,
July 23,
1979, draft)
(Robison,
et al.,
also used by the Department
of Energy for its own health effects assessment
in Enewetak Rainin, Washington,
D.C.,
(Ailin
September,
1979).
For our Assessment we also adopted the genetic effects
and cancer risk estima:es given in the May 1979 draft of
the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council
Report of the Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing
Radiation
(the BEIR III Report).
versions of
both drafts
Since that time final
have become available,
and each
contains revised values for estimates we used in 1979.
We have examined these changes and revised our numerical
health effects estimates for the resettlement of Enewetak
Atoll accordingly.
In summary,
though there are increases
in both the dose estimates and the cancer risk coefficients,
they are relatively small.
The resulting changes in our
numerical health effects estimates in no way affect our
earlier conclusions regarding the safety of the Enewetak
People upon return.
Radiation Doses.
The refined dose estimates given in
"Reassessment of Potential Radiological Doses for Residents