at least SOK of the dose rate seer during the period of "shine" and fall-out,
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(1) The plan for cloud. tracking to sweep critical areas rather

than to follow all segments of the cloud was adequate ant well within the
Continuous analywis of the raw date

capabilities of the aircraft available.

received through in-flight reports was the primary method of rapidly deter=

mining the relation between forecast ami actual particle trajectories,

This

information, combined with reports from ground monitoring stations, mde
possible rapid gensral determinations of fall-out patterns after each shot,

(2) Manned monitor stations on the several islands were very
useful to assist the post-shot evaluation of fill-ouwt and to augment the sys=

tem of aerial radsafe reconnaissance.

In sams cases the scale range of the

radiac instruments was inadequate arxt was corrected.

Although the BRAVO

event indissted that mre stations were needed, perscanel and self-sufficient
housing end commnications equipment were oct ivailable during the shot phase

to put them in operation. Also, the absence of critical populations after
BRAVO, made such stations less urgent.

The existing ne@work of stations,

equipped with appropriate instruments and coommicstions facilities, provided
& valuable safeguard for populated areas within five hundred miles of the
shot site.

(3) The use of routine operational and test aircraft to assist
in the definition of Sll<out areaa on the shot atoll and between ground sero
and the task forve fleet was inadequate.

It was found necessary to divert

WB-29 eloud tracking aircraft to make low-level sweeps between the ships snd

the shot atoll and to assess the physical amd radsafe damage to the BIKINI
airstrip.

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