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Just such difficulties of plutonium contamination have occurred
around Runit
Island.
For example, the test Scaevola in Operation
Hardtack I was a one-point safety test.
Therefore, it was planned
only to explode by high explosive but not by a nuclear ‘explosion.
Local spreads of plutonium exist near the middle of this long, narrow
island.
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