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this isotope.
Reliability of Residual-Radiation Data. In general, the residual instrumentation functioned either well or not at all. Tables 3.1 through 3.4 show that the
major malfunctions were due to inoperative chart drives. The possibility of malfunc2
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tioning of the recorders was anticipated prior to the operation; however, lack of funds
and time torced the use of these recorders. The recorders thet worked were checked
with a Timemaster and adjusted to within + 0.069 percent accuracy. The repcated calibrations cf the instrument systems indicated a maximumtotal error of less than 10
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taken with the detector heads inside a steel pipe which served as blast and thermal protection. The results from these stations should be increased by a factor of about 1.4
to compensate for the shielding of the blast housings. This estimate of the shielding
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