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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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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