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complete helicopter survey omemesems confirmed the low contamination
levels encountered by the initial survey.

Several plausible reasons have

been eivanced for the absence of heavy contamination,

The most reasonable

teing that the water waves generated by the blast washed over the land
areas and washed the early fallovt aisay.
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WILSON I cloud tracker vas directed to rake a stendard E-type’

search beginning at H+6 hoars in a sector, true tearing 030° through 060°,
with apex on BIKINI,
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WILSON I ves instructed to return via UTIRIK and

WILSON I reported no intensity greater than 50 mrfhre

II fles the pattern indicated in TAB

, beginning at H+i6 hours.

II encsuntered intensities no greater than 10 mr/hr.

WILSON

WILSOM

lew intensities were

encountered throvghout the flight indicating a general snecring of the
bomb Gsbris by the light and variable winds at verious levels,
Ts

The
~ on off-atoll monitoring
stations sibmitted radiation reports

or an hourly schedule beginning at osoMH, 12 June, and contiried on this
schedule through 2000M, 12 June.

No sigmificant increass in background

adiation readings were observed at any of the off-site locations through

5+3 days.

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