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RADIOLOGICAL CLEANUP OF ENEWETAK ATOLL
Theinitial recovery and repair effort after Typhoon Alice took 3 w
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and cost over $264,000. Subsequent repair and replacement of Facitin
required to support the cleanup project and rehabilitation Progray:
continued for months. Photographs of Typhoon Alice damage are m
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Figures 7-16 through 7-20.25.26
Two helicopters were damaged by windblown debris but were repairey
and back in service within a week. Boat damage wasrelatively light. On
LCU parted its steel mooring lines, bounced across several coral heads
and broached on a coral and sand beach. Damageincluded cracks up tog
feet long, cracked frames, and buckled bulkheads. Repairs by the USNE
augmented by a three-man repair team, took almost 4 weeks. One LCM.
also broke loose but received only minor damage.2’
One of the most adverse effects of Typhoon Alice was not discovereg
until some time later. Many of the channels which had been cleared jinty
islands for soil removal operations had filled with sand, making access
extremely difficult. Boken, Aomon, and Lujor channels were severely
affected.
FIGURE 7-16. TYPHOON ALICE DAMAGE, THE “WHITE HOUSE.”
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