Abstract
This environmental assessment evaluates various alternatives to return the Bikini people to their homeland on Bikini Atoll. Eneu Island was spared the heavy nuclear contamination that rendered Bikini Island, the largest and main inhabitable island on the atoll, presently unsuitable for resettlement. The economic, social, technical and environmental consequences of all alternatives were compared, and alternative sites, purposes and scales for resettlement were included in the analysis. This environmental assessment explores these alternatives in detail and concludes that the resettlement of Eneu Island by some of the Bikini people at this time will not result in significant adverse effects to the environment nor will it foreclose any other full scale resettlement option involving the cleanup of Bikini Atoll. In addition, it concludes that the resettlement of Eneu can be accomplished independently from the planned cleanup and resettlement of Bikini Island. Plans and combination of plans involving the early resettlement of Eneu are fully feasible and implementable at this time. (author)
Maragos, J E;
[1]
Agegian, Catherine
[2]
- Environmental Resources Section, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pacific Ocean Division, HI (United States)
- University of Hawaii, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI (United States)
Citation Formats
Maragos, J E, and Agegian, Catherine.
Environmental assessment for the resettlement of Eneu Island on Bikini Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands.
IAEA: N. p.,
1986.
Web.
Maragos, J E, & Agegian, Catherine.
Environmental assessment for the resettlement of Eneu Island on Bikini Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands.
IAEA.
Maragos, J E, and Agegian, Catherine.
1986.
"Environmental assessment for the resettlement of Eneu Island on Bikini Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands."
IAEA.
@misc{etde_20685312,
title = {Environmental assessment for the resettlement of Eneu Island on Bikini Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands}
author = {Maragos, J E, and Agegian, Catherine}
abstractNote = {This environmental assessment evaluates various alternatives to return the Bikini people to their homeland on Bikini Atoll. Eneu Island was spared the heavy nuclear contamination that rendered Bikini Island, the largest and main inhabitable island on the atoll, presently unsuitable for resettlement. The economic, social, technical and environmental consequences of all alternatives were compared, and alternative sites, purposes and scales for resettlement were included in the analysis. This environmental assessment explores these alternatives in detail and concludes that the resettlement of Eneu Island by some of the Bikini people at this time will not result in significant adverse effects to the environment nor will it foreclose any other full scale resettlement option involving the cleanup of Bikini Atoll. In addition, it concludes that the resettlement of Eneu can be accomplished independently from the planned cleanup and resettlement of Bikini Island. Plans and combination of plans involving the early resettlement of Eneu are fully feasible and implementable at this time. (author)}
place = {IAEA}
year = {1986}
month = {Jul}
}
title = {Environmental assessment for the resettlement of Eneu Island on Bikini Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands}
author = {Maragos, J E, and Agegian, Catherine}
abstractNote = {This environmental assessment evaluates various alternatives to return the Bikini people to their homeland on Bikini Atoll. Eneu Island was spared the heavy nuclear contamination that rendered Bikini Island, the largest and main inhabitable island on the atoll, presently unsuitable for resettlement. The economic, social, technical and environmental consequences of all alternatives were compared, and alternative sites, purposes and scales for resettlement were included in the analysis. This environmental assessment explores these alternatives in detail and concludes that the resettlement of Eneu Island by some of the Bikini people at this time will not result in significant adverse effects to the environment nor will it foreclose any other full scale resettlement option involving the cleanup of Bikini Atoll. In addition, it concludes that the resettlement of Eneu can be accomplished independently from the planned cleanup and resettlement of Bikini Island. Plans and combination of plans involving the early resettlement of Eneu are fully feasible and implementable at this time. (author)}
place = {IAEA}
year = {1986}
month = {Jul}
}