4.2.4
Conclusions and Recameendarions
Inforaation was obtained from each type of detector exposed except
chemical dye dosimeters which suffered age deterioration, and gamma-dose-rate
instruments at the two high stations om each shot which wre apparently below
their detection thresholds when radio propagation was resumed after several
tens of seconds.
Most film emlsions show a marked increase in sensitivity to gamma rays
of low energies (less than about 0.15 Mew), while the sensitivity of many organic fluors decreases in this region.
One would, therefore, expect bare fils
badges to indicate considerably higher doses if an appreciable portion of the
incident gamma vere in the lower end of the spectrus.
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