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Mr, William R. Kennedy
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APO 187, AQW-P. 0. Box §
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San Francisco, California
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Dear Bills
I was wore then happy to get your TWX giving the results of the first day's
Dlowing backwards.
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to explain the situation in pert, although we still think that the wind was
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I mist admit that we were a little open-mouthed when we got the
numbers down on a map and saw what had happened. Our first conclusion vas
that the wind had probebly played a very dirty trick on you. In no other
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way could we explain the emerging radiation levels on the more or less
distant islands. I assume that all of your readings were given in mr per
hour, and I trust that you will continue to use the same system in the
future, Yesterday we heard of the revised estimate of yield which would help
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We will be interested to learn what sort of exposures they received,
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We assume that the entire atoll wes evacuated except for the perty on Nan.
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they stayed in a bunker, they were perfectly o.k. until they emerged to
be taken off, We will, of course, be extremely interested in getting the
results of subsequent surveys to learn something about the decay rate.
Rod Spence is due out there before long, and you might want to get fron
him a description of how his mterial differed from previous cases. It
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is quite interesting.
Si Shlesr and company brought a 360 curie source into the cobalt room at .
BRL. It certeinly appears that we can use sources there of that sive with-
out eny serious problems.
in the floor.
Don Muller dropped his pill down through a hole ‘gals
It was finally recovered using a techniqus half
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trust that you will reciprocate.
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Dinan
Best regards to all of you.
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We will try to keep you posted on interesting nevs items eround ‘here
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carried on. I would also like to know what "thumbteack" is, It does not
eeem to appear on any of the code lists we have around here.
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in time you will give us a good description of what the hole in the reef
looks like and also give us a picture of how the work in general is to belgy
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It seems obvious that the schedule may be badly upset in the future. We
assume that the camps on Nan and Tare are out of business. We hope thet
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survey.
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