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resulting base surge has approximately the same radius as the base
surge from a large single shot of the same total yield and emplaced at

the same scaled depth. The base-surge height for a five-charge row
shot is reaSonably well approximated by scaling the height of the base
surge for a Single-charge event by the 0.2 power of the total yield of
the row-charge shot.

A first approximation to the geometries of the individual main
cloud may be obtained by treating each main cloud independently and

estimating the top and the radius of each cloud from the work of Day.®
Examination of the high-explosive row-charge documentary photographs
of the Rowboat, the Dugout, and the Pre-Buggy shots indicates that such
an approximation is reasonable, This approximation can, of course, be
in error if main-cloud interactions occur. There is a need to evaluate

the uncertainty in fallout prediction for multiple-charge shots in cases
where cloud interactions lead to the injection of radioactivity at levels
higher in the atmosphere than predicted.

Concerning the F, for row-charge shots, preliminary experimental

results for high-explosive single- and row-charge shots have been reported previously," In this study, results of the measured vented frac-

tion of °La tracer from single- and row-charge high-explosive shots

were given. The experimental evidence suggests that the vented fraction

from row-charge shots

may be about twice that from single-

charge shots. One of the most pressing needs for fallout prediction
from row-charge shots is the establishment, through either experiment or theory, of the dependencyof the F, on yield, depth of burial, or
charge spacing,
The development of computer aids for the row-charge fallout-

prediction problem, however, can proceed independently of the solution
of the two previously cited problems: (1) the specification of initial
cloud geometry and (2) the specification of F,. Therefore the capability
of plotting fallout patterns for multicloud and/or multidetonation events

has been developed. Figures 11 and 12 show, respectively, the (H + 1)hr dose-rate patterns computed for 10 Danny Boy detonations on an

east to west line with charge centers separated by 33.5 m and for 10
Danny Boy detonations on a north to south line with charge centers
separated by 33.5 m. For the purpose of these calculations, each deto-

nation is assumed to vent 5% (e.g., F, = 0.05), each cloud is assumed
to be the same as that for Danny Boy, and the input wind for each cloud
fallout problem is assumed to be the same as the shot-time wind for
Danny Boy. These two row-charge fallout patterns, although detectably

different as determined from the printout, appear to be very similar.
Calculational results suggest that the fallout pattern from a smallscale row-charge shot is not sensitive to the orientation of the wind to

the alignment of the charges.

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