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DONALDSON:
EISENBUD:
way e4th they left.
They sailed into the equatorial current
just west of Bikini and took proflle measurements which indicated that about 200,000 curies a day was drifting out of the
lagoon into the equatorial current.
tests were going on,
This is while the other
This information was given to re ina
little packet which wasn't discussed very mich and I read it
on the way back and I got-interested in it and as a result of
that and the fact that it was a simple extrapolation to show
that this device would go into the Kuroshiro Current in the
Philippines and then head north to the Japanese coast, it
seered prudent to get out and get som measurenents , and this
was done through an operation control which was carried on
jointly vetween the Coast Guard and Dr. Donaldson's laboratory
and ours and that took place at I believe in March, about a
year after the 1954 event.
DONALDSON:
1955,
EISENBUD:
And gave som very good data on the
distribution of radioactivity in the Western Pacific as a
result of that test.
,
FREMONT-SMITH: Was it appreciable?
EISENBUD:
Yes.
The radioactivity was detected
everywhere that the expedition went.
It started from--well,
essentially from the Marshall Islands and proceeded west to
Guam and then north in the Kuroshiro Current to Japan, where
they put in and exchanged data with the Japanese and then as
I recall, Lauren, you correct me--I'm just reconstructing
this -~-they came back in the Alaska Current and went down the
West Coast of the United States and completed a cruise of soreé
three and a half or four months during which tlre they actually followed the current all the way around.
FREMONT-SMITH:
cumulating it?
Were the fish getting this and ac-
Stafford Warren