DEVICE INFORMATION

TABLE 2.1

Koa

Total yield, Mt’

Walnut

Oak

1.31 2 0.08

9 + 0.6

Fission yield, Mt
Location

Site Gene

Near Site Janet

4 miles south of Site

Shot time and
date

0630 M
13 May 1958

0630 M
15 June 1958

0730 M_
29 June 1958

Shot type

Land-surface

Water-surface, fired

Water-land surface,

from a barge in deep
water

fired from an LCU
anchoredin 15 feet
of water over the
lagoon reef

Alice

TABLE 2.2

CLOUD ALTIT UDE DATA

Approximate altitude in feet.
Koa

Walnut

Oak

Tropopause

57,000

§4,000

50,000

Light and variable layer

60,000+

55,000

55,000

Cloud top, expected*

72,000

72,000

99,000

Cloud top, observed

65 ,000

61,000

70,000 to

Sampling flights

60,300

56,500

75,000
56,300

* Reference 71.

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