authorized in specific cases.

When this authorization was made, however,

individuals were not to exceed 0.1 rem per day during the remainder of the
operation (7: 64).
Film badges were issued to individuals who might be exposed to radiation
while performing their duties.

In addition, over 75 film badges for each test

were distributed among the six participating ships, to be worn from the day of
the test to 7 days thereafter.

Among the men in the test area during all or

part of the testing operations, 2,416 were badged one or more times (7: 2).
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Fallout occurred on the inhabited islands of Enewetak, Parry, and Japtan

and on the six task force ships after three of the four shots in the series.
Fallout from Shot DOG was approximately twice as great on Parry and Japtan
than it was on Enewetak, where the majority of the island-based participants
were located.

Shot EASY fallout was insignificant and affected all residence

islands equally.

Shot ITEM fallout, on the other hand, was approximately

twice as great on Enewetak as it was on Japtan (7: 3).

Overall, calculated

fallout doses for personnel remaining on the residence islands until the end
of May, when the rollup phase was virtually complete, were nearly equal on all
three of the islands:

Enewetak, 2.93 rem; Parry, 3.10 rem; and Japtan, 2.87

rem.
The amount of fallout received by the six ships varied with their
locations and decontamination procedures.

Nearly all crewmembers on five of

these ships were assigned a fallout dose immediately after GREENHOUSE, and
these doses were recorded in Navy medical records.

The assigned doses ranged

from 0.334 rem on USS LST-859 to 1.1 rem on USS Cabildo (LSD-16) and USS
Sproston (DDE-577).

Boat pool doses ranged from 0.700 to 2.1 rem.

The

fallout exposure was lower aboard ship than on the islands due to water
washdown, shielding, and decontamination of external surfaces (7: 3).

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