Project 5.1 - Total Dose
Agency:
Operations:
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL)
For MIKE, two lines of film badges were laid out, one
from Eluklab to the far end of Bokoluo, and the other from Eluklab
to the far end of Enjebi.
yards on land.
Three film badges were placed every 100
Two of the badges were attached to devices that
caused them to drop into shielding receptacles, the first 0.2
second after the explosion and the second 60 seconds after that
(IPO 132#2, p. E-1).
Retrieval of the film badges for this
experiment was accorded secondary priority on the MIKE recovery
schedule.
A 3-man team was to helicopter to Bokoluo, Bokombako,
Kirunu, Louj, Bokinwotme, Eluklab, Dridrilbwij, Bokaidrik, Boken,
and Enjebi (Table 4.3, Mission 19).
The KING portion of the
project consisted of a line of film badge stations about 100 yards
apart down the middle of Runit out to approximately 4,000 yards
(IPO 132#2, pp. E-1 and E-2).
Recovery was scheduled to start at
0900 the day after the KING shot by the same team that was to do
the recovery for Projects 4.1, 4.2, 4.4, 5.2, and 8.1 during a
projected working period of 4 hours (Table 4.6, Mission 12).
Radiation Exposure Potential:
All the islands used for the MIKE
portion of this project were contaminated.
Assuming normal
radioactive decay, limited recovery would have been allowed on
each island as follows:
Enjebi (26 hours after detonation),
Bokoluo and Bokaidrik (36 hours after detonation), Bokombako,
Kirunu, and Louj (38 hours after detonation), Boken (50 hours
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