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any one shot did not materially interfere with preparations for the next. In
certain cases, crude decontamination measures were necessary in order to
reduce the contamination level to a point where a normal day's labor could
be performed without excessive dosage resulting. Generally, road-scraping
and bulldozing operations were all that was necessary. Table 2.1 gives the
firing schedule for Eniwetok Atoll.
TABLE 2,1-FIRING SCHEDULE, ENIWETOK ATOLL
Shot
Date (M.1)
Local Time
La Crosse
5 May 56°
0625:29
Yuma
28 May 56
0756
Erte
Seminole
Black foot
31 May 56
6 June 56
12 June 56
0615:29
1255:30
Kickapoo
14 June 66
1126
Osage
16 June 56
1313:53
Inca
22 June 56
0956
Mohawk
3 July 56
0606
Apache
9 July 56
0606
22 July 66
0616
{Huron
0626
2.2.1fta Cross
roduced significant amounts of contamination on all!
islands northof
Survey results four hours after shot time are shown
in Fig, 2.1. Because of contamination, the camps on Rojoa and Teiteiripucch!
were permanently closed after this shot.
The camp on the south end of Runit,
however, was not significantly contaminated and it was re-occupied. Decontamination around the air dispatcher's office on Bitjiri and along the roads
within the Aomon-Rojoa complex was accomplished by using road scrapers
and bulldozers, This materially reduced the dosage that personnel received
in transit to working sites. In addition, the areas around the tower aites on
Runit, Eberiru, and Aomon were decontaminated by scraping and filling, which
permitted work to continue there in a normal manner without exposing personnel! to radiation doses in excess of the maximum permissible exposures.
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