range in deep water from the Mike shot of Operation Ivy and (2) to
attempt a correlation of these data with the basic problem of
air-earth-water coupling of blast waves and possible effects to be
expected on underwater ordnance. At the conclusion of the Mike shot,
none of the instrumentation was recovered. Therefore no positive
results are available. The following possible explanations of the loss
of the instrumentation are-presented:

from the Mike shot

(1)

The water column thrown up

(assuming a 10-Mt yield over a free water surface)

would have had a radius of 9160 ft. The accompanying inward motion of
the water in the adjacent area would extend considerably farther out.

The tuna can and may have gone up the spout. Discussions with
authorities in this field have led the Project Officer to believe that

this is the most plausible explanation for the loss of equipment. (2)
The underwater pressures were so great at the ranges in question that
the tuna cans were ruptured below the water line and sank.

Ma‘jjor Descriptors: *IVY PROJECT -- UNDERWATER EXPLOSIONS;
EXPLOSIONS -- PRESSURE EFFECTS

*UNDERWATER

Descriptors: TIME DEPENDENCE
Broader Terms: EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
Subject Categories: 450202*
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Author(s): Storm, E.;
Bemis, B. Jr.;
Malik, J.S.
Title: Gamma radiation as a function of distance
Corporate

Source:

Los Alamos

Scientific Lab.,

Publication Date: Jul 1955
p 20
Report Number(s):
AD-363577/8/XAB
Note: Report on Operation Ivy, Project 5.1
(Prelim)

(U).

NM

(USA)

Supersedes Rept. No.

WT-643

Document Type: Report
Language: English
Journal Announcement: ERA8505

Availability: NTIS, PC A0Q2/MF AOl.

Subfile:
ERA (Energy Research Abstracts).
Country of Origin: United States

Country of Publication: United States

Abstract: Film measurements of gamma-ray exposure vs distance were made on
beth Mike and King. The results show that gamma radiation from
large-yield devices cannot be scaled directly from measurements of
nominal-size devices, and that the effect of the shock wave and the
cloud rise must be taken into consideration. For the 550-kt King shot,
the gamma-ray exposures were about 1.5 to 1.7 times those expected by
scaling directly from a nominal device. For the 10-Mt Mike sot,

measured values were 30 to 80 times those expected from scaling.

Major Descriptors: *GAMMA RADIATION -- RADIATION DOSES;
SCALING LAWS; *IVY¥ PROJECT -- GAMMA RADIATION

Descriptors: DISTANCE

Broader Terms: DOSES; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION;
RADIATIONS; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; RADIATIONS

Subject Categories:
Weaponry --

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Author(s):

Cohen,

EXPLOSIONS;

IONIZING

-- Explosions & Explosives -- Nuclear --

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Title: Comparison of radionuclide concentrations in 1956 and 1973 Enewetak
beach material
N.;

Rahon,

T.H.;

Hirshfield,

Affiliation: New York Univ. Medical Center,
Source:

Health Phys.

Publication Date:

(United Kingdom)

Feb 1985

Document Type: Journal Article

p 228-230

Language: English
Journal Announcement: EDBS505
Country of Origin: United States

NY

v 48:2.

H.

Coden:

HLTPA

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