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Operation Operation

Gamma Dose Rates

\ Redwing

on Rongelap Isiand

Milliroentgens

per hour

AF stimated dose rate
at D+l

Hardtack

4 From Dunning 1957
O University of Washington

———Theoretical decay T7'2
Theoretical decay of ues
fission products as measure

by the AN/PDR-39 (TIB)
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radiac at 3 feet above an

a.

infinite plane

\

(Miller and

\

Loeb, !958)

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\

Marchl

-2

1955 '56'57'58'59'6163

10

10°

to at

Io”

Days after March 1,1954
and Marchi of each year indicated

Fig. 2.

10*

Decline of Gamma Dose Rates at Rongelap Island.

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