operated and maintained electronic systems for B Division, Health
and Safety radiation monitoring, and the Tory II- A and C, and
Super Kukla reactor controls; and operated the telemetric system
of data transmission.
The LRL Electronics Shop at Mercury,
Nevada, maintained test equipment and fabricated new special systems such as remopte camera and photo control, Sky Scan (airborne
activity)
and Vidor systems.
The Health and Safety Group of LRL- Nevada Operations sup-
ported all weapons tests and Plowshare devices, site emplacement,
drilling and sample reading, and monitoring, control, and shipment of radioactive materials originated at the NTS.
Hundreds of
technical and nontechnical reports describe the Group’s efforts.
The Group sought to employ improved methods of radioactive sampling and analysis then available. A gamma spectrometer telemetry
facility was installed in 1965 at Mercury for radioactive identification of
recovered
sample materials.
Pacific Proving Ground
(PPG)
LRL staff participated in the Bikini shots of 1946 and several subsequent tests in the later 1950s up to the moratorium of
1958-1961.
The resumption of weapons testing had an important
impact on all divisions. In 1962 Dominic involved high altitude
rocket drops and air drops at Christmas Island and air drops near
Johnston Island.
During Dominic, LRL personnel were stationed on
Christmas and Johnston islands, as well as Oahu and Kauai in
Hawaii.
Staff accumulated data on nuclear detonations using
diagnostic
systems.
Studies were
also made of long-flight and
high altitude weapon explosions for measuring high-energy
neutrons.