CHAPTER 11
SUMMARY OF PERSONNEL EXPOSURES
Generally speaking, the only task force personnel exposed to nuclear
radiation during the IVY test series were involved in operations such as
radioactive cloud sampling and data recovery where exposures were expected
to occur.
personnel.
prepared.
There appears to have been no widespread exposure of support.
As a consequence, the personnel who were exposed were
They knew what to expect and they were protected in thesense
that their times of exposure were monitored and a record was kept of their
cumulative dose.
Very few men exceeded the task force's maximum permissible exposure of
3.9 rem.
Those that did significantly exceed these were involved in two
incidents.
The first (and the one resulting in the highest doses recorded)
inolved the crew of an SA-16 search and rescue amphibian aircraft who were
responding to an emergency situation.
A sampler aircraft and pilot went
down in the ocean following the MIKE shot.
The search and rescue aircraft
took the shortest path to the downed aircraft and in so doing knowingly
passed through a fallout zone.
As a result, the 7-man crew received doses
of 10 to 17.8 rem.
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