Radiation Exposure Potential:
The MIKE blast heavily contaminated
Boken Island (see Table 4.2 and Appendix C).
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project team headed there should not have faced a radiation
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Project Reports:
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BEST AVAILABLE Copy
Project 2.1b - Alpha of the KING Fission
Agency:
Operations:
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
Detectors were placed on the north end of Runit
Island, about 2,000 feet (600 meters) from the projected KING
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ground zero, which was on the reef off the end of Runit.
The
detectors’ signals were transmitted through cables to Station 250
farther south on the island.
Additional detectors were placed
near Station 250, and these transmitted their signals to recorders
in Station 250 (IPO 132#2, p. B-2).
The high-priority schedule
for KING recovery called for a group of three men to helicopter to
Runit for recovery of Project 2.1b data (see Mission 3, Table
4.6), but no record is available of when they landed on Runit or
how long they stayed.
Radiation Exposure Potential:
A survey taken from a helicopter
flying over Runit about 50 minutes after the KING shot indicated
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little contamination, with maximum ground readings estimated at
3.8 R/hr (see Table 4.5 and Appendix C).
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