European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Government he boat had reached the other Side of the some 15 from be Shore or an Island called Snowwhite fairy term and Darker noddy Tern glided and wheeled Over the Trees and Green scrub grew out of the Coral oily an aging steel Tower suggested anything possibly Nib a about runt really innocent int it re marked who a the radiation safety and Security officer for Enewetak he was escorting a Small party of visitors to an Island that had been around Zero for Many of the nuclear a sign at the pier warned in English Anamartha urge caution radioactive do not proceed beyond this Point without from the Enewetak atoll site chief Johanes Peter i Are Here and we Are i Fly 1977 still on the everyone slipped on rubber boots and double Gauze masks Over the nose and Bennett cautioned against touching Metal objects or picking up souvenirs such As Coral or and be careful not to get any scratches or he runic is the hottest of the 40 islands that make up the Enewetak formerly one of the principal Sites in the Pacific Ocean or nuclear weapons testing by the United there is still some plutonium in the but its Alpha radiation is not considered dangerous unless it is kicked up and breathed in or or comes in con tact Wilh a open then the plutonium can work its Way into the organs of the primarily the the Metal scrap emits Gamma which is no problem for someone passing could be dangerous Over the King borne Plant Lite is contaminated with cerium and it is by place to Only to visit and then Only runt is Ofemi Bisti to the people of Eil who recently returned to their Homeland to try to take up life where they left u years when they were sent into exile to make Way Cor the nuclear about 75 of a 450 new Hakes Arenow living on we of thei islands in the atoll that was not used for unit May never be a habited Hobar War Dean Pottle which begins this runt will be the dumping for the radioactive soil and debris that Ore from Otter the cleanup operation is being directed to the defense nuclear with the of the Energy research and do Vek Meol it will Cost is and another million is being sought from Congress by the department debris from nuclear explosions still litters the of the Interior to rehabilitate the atoll that to Plant Foo bearing Trees and build new housing or the this is the first comprehensive pro feet to clean Aad rehabilitate a Fohner nuclear lest walking along an old Road of Coral Sand on runt was an eerie morning glories were in air was except for the occasional cry of a curious Bird swooping Low Over the then the party came to the a Stark Skeleton out of the it had been used for the cameras that took those Pic Tures of the ominous mushroom Clouds thai once Rose Over when the Earth Shook and blasts of radiation and beat filled he air and the sea Rose in tidal below the lower was the its steel door open to a dark and Dank Labyrinthine vault where scientists Sal out the Vio Lence and studied their near the Tower he hulks of old ships Lay rusting on the about a mile up the at the Northern end of the were two deep craters filled Irish they bad been gouged out of the Coral and Limestone by nuclear the Needle on Bennetts radiation counter Rose u he approached Ibe when be ran the counter Over a piece of twisted Ibe Needle swung olt one or both of the Cratcha will be the final resting place for the radioactive material cleared away from the other studies made by the defense Agency and Erda indicate that there some cubic Yards of nonradioactive debris and cubic Yards of radio Active plus cubic Yards of plutonium contaminated soil requiring re Moval and gome of the details of the cleanup plan have not been but the general out lines Are As follows the mobilization was to begin in there Are about 100 americans living and working an Enewetak mostly civil who maintain the Airfield and some mothballed and coast guardsmen who in a radio navigation by the end of the year the number is expected to increase to 850 or mostly military the Navy b to operate the ships needed or the cleanup Aad be in Dot due Btu to mine of the the air Force hand com Tanica air Supply Ornu Jorj health the army Cocks of Engi the largest will do Mast of the actual Denauw Start ing in november and running thu Sta one army team will operate off the main Island of Enewetak and be responsible for work in the Southern of the these were not Sius Tor nuclear test and thus have no ref inactive but it was there that the technicians and support troops Stone were for the next Island Over from Enewetak is a ghost town of abandoned corrugated steel Lank water Concrete rotting piers and foundations of buildings that have Long since Digap both Medren an Denecuk itself must be cleared in 8 paved so that the people can now the breadfruit Aad a Damn on which they depend Tor much of their the two Are expected to be where most of the people Stu Settle alter the with the other islands serving As tree farms for harvesting two other army cleanup will be based on one of the Northern it from Lejwa one of the learns will fan Over the tiny islands to identify and col Lect scrap contaminated soil and other debris no contaminated debris will be dumped into the Bottom of the the contaminated debris and soil will be sent to the other team from Lejwa will be in charge of disposal operations at working on protective using Trutta and the Troppe Are to drop contaminated scrap into the to item of Cactus so named after the code name for the tests conducted then contaminated soil will be mixed with Portland Cement and water producing a slurry that will be pumped into the Crater to Harden Over and arwied the at end of cup irtes Duck flu Laid Over that pwt blah we be sent leu from Ehda Eop duct Aerial am ground Nufi Otka and after the Wutti note Lori of Tecton installed pc they Kate possibly hymn Laimit would then be surveyed in More detail on the for Mil and debris Roval would thus be staked additional surveys will be made during Aad after the cleanup to Jim if us radiation Bave been reduced to in earlier Erda a dentists said that they found most life on Enewetak atoll bad returned to Ron a Marine biologist from Hawaii who has spent considerable time examining atoll has written today fish and corals thrive a the which attests to the capacity o nature to recover from nearly any kind of the stars and stripes Page 15