a on the ship's deck resulting from contaminants in the air surrounding the ship; and Residual free field ~ the radiation field on the ship's deck resulting from contaminants on the ship's weather surfaces. The relative contributions by the various sources were compared both in a region which was washed down ani in a region which was unwashed, It was noted that on the deck of a washdown protected ship the air contribution was 99 percent of the total dose rate and 80 percent of the total dose at the time of maximum fallout, and 25 percent of the total dose at the time that the fallout stopred. The water contribution was virtually insignificant, the dose accumulated was 400 mr up to the time that the YAG-40 left the area, Interaction cf Gamna Radiation with Steel Gamma fields inside steel cylinders of various thicknesses were compared as a function of cylinder thickness anid time. Least square straight lines were drawn for the plots on semilog paper. The slopes Q coeffi pote of thesa lines determine combined absorption ani multiple scattering ants (A). The indications are that the BAER¢201) data were Significantly different from the Castle data. Instrumentation errors cannot account for all ge Dpis difference, leading one to suspect we that for later times +eley= energy spectrum contained a reater:- percentage (Romeo), be an ev high energies than 3 sas the case at Castle | g & otk y (Union), and * CONCLUSTONS ae * MW ~ Yankee). < ieee For surface detonations the relative dosage contribution from the contaminated water apreared to be insignificant. The dosage contributed by the contaminated air surrounding a washiown protected ship accounted for most of the dosage which would be received ‘ae cit Pos ocr a “ ~ 51 - aa! 2” :

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