Contaminated metal and concrete Scrap on Enewetak Atoll,
Table 224,
Island
Approximate scrap
quantities
Remarks
ALICE
10 ya?
Background is up to 170 uR/hr,
BELLE
Small
Background up to 250 uR/hr.
CLARA
Small
Background up to 100 wR/hr.
DAISY
Small
Background up to 140 uR/hr.
EDNA
None
Sandbar
IRENE
Mbderate™
Up to 1.2 mr/hr.
JANET
568 ya?
Activated scrap metal in all sizes can be
found in piles or individual pieces scattered
wreck on beach reads 8 mR/hr,.
(<10 yds)
(< 10 yas)
(<10 yd3)
An M-boat
over the island at levels up to 8 mr/hr.
PEARL
317 ya"
Confined to SGZ area, Levels upto 5 mr/hr.
RUBY
196 yd"
SALLY
2106 ya"
Scrap-metal activity levels up to 0.12 mr/hr.
Alpha levels on concrete surfaces up to
103
TILDA
1 ya?
YVONNE
4064 ya?
Total
7262 yd
dpm/50 cm?,
Activity levels up to 60 mr/hr.
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“Reference does not identify volume.
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In the south-central part of ELMER
Because of the extremely low ambient
(the small "E" level areaof
radiation levels on the southern islands
Fig. B.39.1.b) there appears to be
and the sensitivity of the aerial survey
scrap metal or other radioactive
equipment, we can be reasonably con-
debris on,
fident that we have found all material
or just below,
the ground
surface in heavy underbrush.
above ground with activity levels greater
On the north-central shore of
than a few microroentgens per hour.
GLENN (the 'C" area of Fig.
FRED,
B.48.1.b) there is a derelict barge
level found (the ''D" area in Fig. B.46.1.b)
which is contaminated with detect-
proved to be coming from barrels of fly
able amounts of
207 Bi.
On
for example, the highest radiation
ash stored in a warehouse intended to be
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