follow the shot schedule,
Consequently, the total mumber of peeple in the
unit was such that only 2 skeleton force was set aside for the oppesite atall,
A further aggravating cireumstance arose following the BRAVO event, namely,
the requirement to rolleup the damaged and contaminated TARE earmp snd to
maintain all activities shipedased,
This required that the Radsafe Unit of
T 7,1 further split itself to cover each major ship housing personnel who
normally worked ashore during daylight hours,
required afloat at BIKINI alone,
Four najor Radsafe Centcrs were
One of these was lccated at a kotel ship
met originally designed to eope with mass contre] of personnel working in
contaminated areas,
The solution in this case was a barge (secured along-side)
equipped with two squad tents for storege of equipment ami office space, and
decontamination showers drawing off the ship's water supply.
Problems of
dosimetry control became acute primarily due to the increased time required
to collect, film badges at a certtral laboratory, process the badges amd return
the results to the various ships prior to the next re-entry to shore installations.
Personnel, equipment and instruments were spread thin in order to
cover the essential shore work,
The further requirement to operate simuilta-
neously at doth atolls was a particularly difficult matter.
This problen
was limited, however, to the TG 7.1 unit since the Radsafe units of the Amy
and Air Foree Task Groups (TG 7.2 and 17 7.4) required no shift in their base
of operetions, and the Navy Tisk Croup (1G 7.3) Radsafe unit was designed
around relatively self-sufficient individual ship units,
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