REED: Dr, Knox, when you talked about F, decreasing in row charges,
was that for special tests? Would it go up a factor of maybe 5 for rows
of 15 or 20 charges?
KNOX: In fallout from row-charge detonations, F,, the fraction of
the gamma activity appearing in the close-in fallout pattern, is not well

known. The paper I presented utilizes F, data from USAEC Report
PNE-300,. This report describes the F, experiments and measurements
for tracer-loaded high-explosive sources detonated as single charges
and as rows in alluvium (Pre-Buggy JD, These measurements of F, for

row-charge shots and the corresponding measurements of F, for
Single-charge shots indicate that F, for a row charge does not exceed
that for a single charge by more thana factor of 2. It is not thought that
F., is a linear function of the number of charges. However, a definite
need exists to obtain better information on the vented fraction for row
charges since the number of experiments contained in the Pre-Buggy
Program is small.

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