apring 1953.

(The skin damage observed on shee; in the spring 1953 was not

established to be beta turns.)

However, tue exact positions of the aninals

in relation to know ancunts ef fallout erv not clear.
Pollowing the last detonation of the spring 1952 series af the Nevada

Proving Grounds, about one half of a herd ef 155 head of cattle ware found
to have evidenee of beta burns.

They vere thought te have been 15-20 ailes

from ground sere in Kawieh Valley to the northeast and te have been exposed

to fallout from the last detonation.
dose rate readings

(14 CT on a 30O foot tever) Righest

taken along a dirt road ruming

this valley, integrated

lengthvise through

to 75-100 infinity gamma doses.

During Upshot-fncothole, 16 horses showed skin lesions ever the back
an? eye daaage was note’ in a few.

The best evidence indicated that the

horses vere some fl uiles to the east ef ground zero om 17 Mareh 1954,

where the fallout oceurrec from the first detonation (16 KT en a KC foot
tower,.

Radiation levels in this area ere nct mow with certainty but

the fallout seeurred tr a narrow band and was carried by relatively high
velocity winds: go that it probably
ene hour.

fell en the horses at a time legs than

If go, probably more than cnetielf of the infinity dese vas

deliverec during the next day

Suerstiona, Feasibility
Under the criteria recommended in Teliey I1, there would have been
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