TABLE 3.5

COMPUTATION OF DOSE RATE AND ACCUMULATED DOSE 3 FEET ABOVE A
HYPOTHETICAL PLANE CATCHING THE FALLOUT FROM SHOT 5

Column:
1. Local time of reading (track time).

Column:
6. 6 computed instantaneous local dose rate at 3

2. Hours since Shot 5 (Col 1 minus 0600/5/May).

feet elevation in r/hr (8.2 x 107) (Col 4) (Col 5) Appen-

3. Hours since fallout arrival (derived from NRDL
arrival data and based upon the corrected track).
4. Depth of mixing Z in meters.

dix C.
7. Decay coefficient to H + 12 hours (NRDL decay
data).

derived from an average of the local wa readings
(Figure 3.1) after these were first reduced to mr/hr

at H + 12 (Col 7) (Col 6) in r/hr.

5.

$, computed dose rate in situ at time t; this was

8¢

(Figure 2.1 - Figure 2.4), then correcting for apparent instrument contamination, then multiplying by the
factor 1.5 (Appendix B) so as to correct for use of the
instruments when submerged in a 4 pi sourceof fall-

In mr/hr.

64. computed local dose rate at 3 feet elevation

9. @, computed local dose rate at 3 feet elevation
at H+ 1 (22.7) (Col 8) in r/hr.

roughly by applying the radium calibration curves

out material.

8.

10.

11.

Fallout time of arrival, hours after Shot 5.

Computational factor, the accumulated dose

computed on the basis of l r/hr at time H +1. (Based
upon decay data from NRDL).
12. Computed dose at 3 feet elevation accumulated
between fallout arrival and H + 50 = (Col 11) (Col 9).

Note: The numbers in all columns should be roundedoff at two figures.
1

2

3

4

Track

— Hours

Hours

Depth

And
Date

H
Hour

FallOut

Mixing
(Meters)

Time

Since

Since

of

5

-

pt

In

Situ
(mr/hr)

6

Of

@3'

R/hr

7

Decay

Coefficient

to Hel2

8

9

3

Q

@ 4,

R/nr

@ 4,

/

W/hr

10

11

12

Fallout accumu-

Accumulated

Hours:
Since

Fallout to
H+50 Roentgen

Time

H Hour

lated

Dose
Factor

Dose from

May 5 1954

2300

2315
2330
350
24,00

17:0

17:15
17:30
17: 50
18:00

15:00

15:15
15:30
15:50
16.00

35.2

35.8
36.4
37.2
37.6

1.7

24.0
60.0
91.2
83.4

3.38

7.05
17.90
27.80
25.70

1.35

1.37
1.39
1.41
1.42

4.56

9.66
24.88
39.20
36.49

103.7

219.0
566.0
890.0
806.0

2.0

2.0
2.0
2.0
2.0

1.86

1.86
1.86
1.86
1.86

193.00

407.00
1,052.00
1,652.00
1,500.00

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