The 5x8 record cards and the Personnel Exposure Sheets were updated
with exposure information

(when possible)

ter developing and/or reading.

as soon as it was available af-

The 5x8 record cards were used as a cur-

rent tabulation of personnel exposure.

This system was designed to inform

the monitors of the total dose received by any task group member.

Even

sO, Overexposures sometimes occurred because of the time required for processing, posting the results, and notifying affected personnel.
At the conclusion of CASTLE, the record cards and Personnel Exposure
Sheets were transferred to CTG 7.1, who was responsible for keeping total
dose records on the entire task force.

For most units where 5x8 record

cards were not used, rosters of shipboard personnel were used to list and

total all badge readings for each individual.

These unit master lists and

the 5x8 record cards were used to develop the Consolidated List of CASTLE
Radiological Exposures

(Reference 13), which was used as the basis for the

dose tabulations in Chapters 6 through 10.

Although the Consolidated List

does not distinguish between exposures determined from film badges and
those calculated or assessed, these data are often obtainable from the 5x8
record cards or the Personnel Exposure Sheets.

In the process of accumulating the names for the Consolidated List,
some badges with zero readings were ignored.

Therefore, a badged individ-

ual who had only zero readings may not appear on the Consolidated List.
This practice was not uniform, but a cursory examination of the microfilm
record (Reference 87)

that contains the Personnel Exposure Sheets, the 5x8

cards, and the rosters of shipboard personnel reveals that men with badges
issued at the Enewetak airfield with zero readings do not appear on the
Consolidated List unless, of course, they were issued another badge at
another time that did indicate exposure.

The extent of this is difficult

to judge without examining all the microfilmed records.
TG 7.4

(Air Force)

Personnel of

were primarily affected, and the Consolidated List er-

roneously indicates that less than half were badged; the Naval Air Station
at Kwajalein also ignored zero readings in cumulating badged personnel.
This has no significance for assessing the total radiological exposure;

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