Ship Recovery
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Marine transportation to the northern islands was provided by the boat
pools of TG 132.1, augmented by the boat pool of TG 132.3 (Op Pin 2-52,
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IPL 132#2, Annex R, p. R-1).
The TG 132.3 boat poot vessels were all part
aos;men, Of TG 132.3's Harbor Control Task Element (132.3.2).
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Records are not
available on the contamination of TG 132.1 ships or the doses of their
bellem: crews.
However, the fleet tug, the USS Lipan (ATF-85), and the five LCUs
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attached to the Harbor Control Task Element "were contaminated above
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tolerance levels while they were operating in the contaminated waters or
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on the contaminated beaches in the northern sections of Enewetak lagoon"
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(IPO 132.3#2, pp. 5-7).
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The dosimetry for the crew of the Lipan and the
——————_ five LCUs is presented in Table 7.1 in Chapter 7.
The KING data recapegy hy!fs20FAUR Zeal Table 4.5, which
shows contamination levels on the islands following KING and the recovery
missions planned, in Table 4.6, in which the details of the missions are
presented, and in Figure 4.2, which is a map of the atoll showing project
instrumentation locations.
Program 1 - Radiochemistry
One way to measure the yield of a nuclear explosion is to analyze the
resulting debris radiochemically.
Aircraft flying through the shot cloud
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