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Project 7.1-17/RS(BM)-14
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Test of Animal Containers for suitability
for exposing animals at close range.
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Between test X-Ray and test Yoke efforts were made to modify the
various experiments being conducted in order to overcome some of the
-difficulties which developed during the first test.
The most important
of these was to provide som protection for the film badges in order to
minimize their destruction by the intense heat and by the sand stirred
up by the blast wave.
This was accomplished by wrapping the badges in
a layer of glass cloth and then placing a thin sheet of aluminum in
front.
Because of the high intensities of thermal and nuclear radia-
tion detected during the X-Ray test additional stations were set up on
adjacent islands for the placement of film badges and heat sensitive
papers at greater distances.
For greater protection at close range
and to provide more precise data the thermal radiation plaques were in
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