ek FYB Mea 4 JOINT TASK FORCE s SEVEN xk. 4 OF 3-3/729.3 —A APO 187 (HOW) ¢/o POSTMASTER SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA ys ih\ YL La Ct 18 March 1954 SUBJECT: Radiological Surveys of Several Marshall Island Atols TO: Distribution RG 410608 3326 US ATOMIC ENERGY COR phocation 2Dt?J Collection PollerKhevg Keclhoud l. Attached herewith for your radiological surveys made on certain Marshall Island Atolls. e copies of The surveys were conducted as a result of contamination deposited on the affected atolls by BRAVO Shot, Operation CASTLE, fired from a reef approximately one and one half nautical miles southwest of Nam, Bikini Atoll. BRAVO Shot time was 1845 Zebra, 28 February 195k. 2. Water and soil samples were shipped to the Health and Safety Labora- tory, New York Operations Office, Merrill Eisenbud) for analysis. Atomic Energy Commission (Attention: Mr. . FOR THE COMMANDER: DISTRIBUTION: cTG 7.1 CTG 7.2 CTG 7.3 CTG 7.4 CTG 7.5 BEST COPY AVAILABLE CURr ~ Cupy 1-30 ~ Copy 31 ~ Copy 32 ~ Copy 33 ~ Copy 35 HICOMTERPACIS ~ Copy 37 CouNAVSTAKS DEu/ARC ~ Copy 36 ~ Copy 38 _ Copy 23 Ch AFSWP ~ Copy 41 C/S USA, ExAgt ~ Copy og FldComd(DWET) «Ej McGINLEY Brigadier General, U.S, Aray Chief of Staff ~ Copy 34 CINCPAC CINCPACFLT - CLASSIFICATION CANCELLED fF BYA ~ Copy 42 43° LASL H Div, ~ copy kh) USS RENSHAW (DDE-499) — Copy 47 USS NICHOLS (DDE~L49) 3 Incls: - Copy 49 ITY OF DOE/O - 87 tevew BAT & Fer DNA CTR 2i]8e HSL, N¥0O (c/o Mgr Oms) ~ Copy L5-L6Ox% 1/Encelb. # 1. L5esNt9 USS PHILIP (DDE-498) - Copy 48 RAtWAn— wine . POPIED/Dgg Report on Soil and water Sampling i AHL RQ7 Mission by kaj R. D. Crea ue . ay 2. Report on Soil and ‘later Sampling hission by Dr, T. N. vhite, LASL VY: \ 3s Rad, Survey of Downwind atolls Contaminated by BRAVO by Dr. Herbert Scoville rt SRD-213- Sd E ps nn eey ea 17 a ares