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UNCLASSIFIED
7. IS THERE EVIDENCEOF "DRD’* OF DEBRIS STORED IN THE Ww
BY SUPER BOMBS?

TMOSPHERS
,

Method of Stixiy

Analyais of samples fron

worldwide fallout network.

This probles has been sade

by detonations in tities country

Loult

end the

is aw in the atmosphere te
fallout in Movember-Deceskar

approximately 0.1% of the c

residual activity from this
The mean weekly falleut at

is continuing to diminish with

theme we ee,

of perhaps one to two monthe,

onation.
stations

a halflife

MISCELLANETUS HIGHLICHTS

i.

Fallout recorded by the worldwide network, cperated on a

skeleton basis between tests, was less than 1 d/m/fs¢/day in

December.

The origin of the debris is in doukt but ths 89/90 ratio suggmsts

Peau

MIKE.

Thia rate of fallout is equivalent to .02% per week

.

wotal residual radioactivity from MIKE.
2.

Taking all our data into consideration, we find we ars u:

wren preface as

fic

et Siew te wt. coereo|

a

account for more than 5% of the MIKE fission product yield
M Day to the present. A preliminary estimate, based on our
samples to date,indicate that present atmospheric storage,
cipitated, will contribute about as much Sr’¥
to the earth
is already present.

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