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The Bureau of Ships was consulted on possible design of con- te
tainers which might be used for this purpose and on about 1 January
1948 drawings were prepared,
Orisinally it had been planned to
place the containers on land and withdraw them by means of cable
after the shots,
Later it was decided to include two chambers placed
on rafts off shore from the ZERO Island,
It was considered that the
rafts might be more satisfactory because of the cooling action of the
water and the greater facility offered for removing the aninals
rapidly after the shot.
Arrangements were made for the construction
of four test animal chambers, two for land and two on rafts, by the
radiation laboratory at Ihinter's Point.
These were manufactured and
shipped to Long Beach for transportation to Eniwetok on the CVE by
15 February 1948
In addition to the test animal containers Captain Draeger pro~
posed to continue the studies on exposure of biological materials
which had proved so interesting following Bikini,
A wide variety
of samples of assorted biolovicals were obtained from the California
Institnte of Technology, Department of Apriculture, Naval Medical
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Research Institute, and Chemical Corps, U.S, Army,
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fully packaged and shipped by air courierto ce abroad the CVE by
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15 Fobruary 1948.
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thermal sensitivity of various textiles, paints and metals,
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