SUBJECT:

Raasological Survey of Downwind ‘tolis Contaminatcd by BRAVO
8 March = 1000 = 1800 Two partics in smll boats surveyed living arc:
on Rongclap Island and castern half of Rongelap Atol
9 March - 0700 ~ 1130 Two partics in smll boats proeecded from the !
which was stationed outside Utirik Atoll and survcye

Utirik and Aon Islands, tho main islands of the Atol

9 March — 1500 = 1700 Onc party in a small boat landed on tho outer
reef of Bikar Island and survoyed the island, the on
large island of Bikar \toll.

10 March = 0700 ~ 1100 Two partics in small boats proceeded from the |
which was stationed outside Rongcrik Atoll and surve:
Fniwctak Island (where the Task Force's Units had bo
stationed) and the other important islands of the At
10 March = 1430 ~ 19@0 Two partics in smll boats proceeded fromthe |
which was stationcd outsido Alinginac Atoll and surv

the inhabited islands of tho atoll.

11 March - 0700 = 1400 Onc party in a small boat surveyed the northwe.

ern islands of Rongclap Atoll and one party rochecke

the Living arcas on Rongolap Island and established ;
reference location for futurc decay measurcments,

12 March - 0800

Survey toam arrivod Eniwotok Atoll via DDE.

4, The following personnel from test projects in TG 7.1, TU 13, served a
members of the survey tcam:
Herbert Scoville, Jr,
Richard Rast
Richard Soulc

Walmer Strope

TU-13 Staff
Project 2,1
Project 2,5a

Project 6.4

Tho USS NICHOLAS (DDE 449) supplicd boat crows undor the direction of LT Cliff
Frink, Exocutive Officer, for survoys.
5.

Instrumentation
Radiac sct AN/PDR~39 was sclcctcd as the instrumcnt to be used in the

conduct of the survey.

Five (5) cach of AN/PDR+39 were calibratcd with an 80

Curic Co™
sourco twenty-four hours before departurc. The calibration yiclded
zcro-variation between instrummts - any scalc, Upon cross checking three of

these instrumonts, (a point of actual survoy) in a radiation ficld of 0.320 r/
it was found that all three instruments gave the same roading.

These survoy meters wore subject to profongeduve ‘undét}Cadvorse condi
tions of dampness (to the point of sca watcr splashing ovcr thom), salt deposi
and continual rough handling. With onc cxecption, all instrumcnts opcratcd
cfficicntly for the duration of the operation. On the final day it was found

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