Analysis of the gamma time-intensity recorder trace located at How gave
the best evidence of the rate of arrival of fallout.
Use of the differentinl fallout collector and the time-intensity
recorder for determining the period of fallout was restricted to the

lagoon and islands of Bikini Atoll thereby limiting the distance to 15

nauticel miles. The average arrivel time within the area was 0 + 28 min
with cessation averaging O + 117 min resulting in an average period of
89 min. These data compare well with that observed at I 7/wher- the
period was somewhat less than 2 hr. Residual fallout which war of such
quantity thet it contributed Little to the overall field was found to

deposit for a period of soverai hours after the deposition of the main

bedy of materiel.
The Bikini £toll islands along the axis of the fallout pattern
experienced fallout over a longer period of time than did those islands
leeated in a crosswise direction.
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Shot

No evidence was found of primary fallout at early times in the
Bikini Logoon. Secondary fallout of maximum intensity of 40 mr/hr

arrived at How Island 37.5 hr after Sh. 2, as shown by the gamma time-

intensity recorder,

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Shot

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No differertial fallout collectors were operative for Shot 3.
The gamma time-intensity recorder at How Island indicated a time of
arrival of 0 +¢ 38 min. Project 2,2 established an arrival time on Dog
Island of approximately 0 + 20 min.2/

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Enivetok

One differential fallour collector located at Alice Island,
Atoll, received significant fallout amd indicated an arrival

time of O + 35 min with the period of fallout teiny 65 min (Fig. C-18).
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RATE OF ARRIVAL OF FALLOUT AND INTEGRATED DOSE
Of the two gamma icnization time-intensity recorders installed

on Yoke and How Islands of S5ikini Atoll, only the one on How survived
end recorded data from Shots 1, 2, an’ 3. These data give accurate
information cn rate of arrival of fallout «1s well as time of arrival.
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Rate of Arrival
Table §.7 presants the time of arrival of fallout end time of

yeak activity Sor Shots 1, 2, and 3.

The time at which the activity

peak- is not the tine of cessation of fallout. It is bert dascribed as
the time at which the rate of decay is greater than the rate of buildup of fallout.

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