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-- RETYPED COPY -HEADQUARTERS, Joint Task Force SEVEN
Washington 25, D.C.
10 November 1953
Appendix II to Annex N
Radiological safety, CJTF SEVEN Operation Plan No.

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RADIOLOGICAL SAFETY OFFICE AND CENTER

l. A JTF SEVEN radiological safety office (RadSafe Office) and a TG 7.1

radiological safety center (RadSafe Center) will be established for
each shot.
The RadSafe Office, manned by personnel of the Technical
Branch of the task force Operations Division (J-3), will operate as
the task force agency responsible for the dissemination of task force
radiological directives, the presentation of radiological shot briefing material and the maintenance of displays of radiological information having an impact on the overall task force mission.
The RadSafe
Center will be established by CTG 7.1 and will serve as operations
headquarters for the radiological safety activities of TG 7.1.
Pertinent data collected at the RadSafe Center will be forwarded to the
RadSafe Office at the task force command post.
Detailed Duties
a.

Radsafe Office

(1) The RadSafe Office, in coordination with CTG 7.4 who will develop the air RADEX plot, will assemble the overall RADEX situation
and disseminate the air and surface RADEX prior to shot time (fore-

cast) and will originate messages from time to time after shot time
announcing R (Reentry) Hour, radiological clearances of previously

closed areas, radiological directives to task groups, advisories to

commands external to the task force and revisions of the air and surface RADEX as required.
(2) The RadSafe Office will be responsible for the preparation of
RadSafe forecast information for the shot briefings.
(3) The RadSafe Office will maintain displays of radiological information pertinent to the test area and having an impact outside this
area to include radiation levels on atoll islands and lagoon, RADEX
information, cloud trajectories and their relation to occupied atolls
and air and surface routes contiguous to the danger area, ship movements in the danger area,

results of water sampling and such other

items of special radiological consideration as may be required by the
Operation or the scientific projects.
(4)

Physical Locations of the RadSafe Office
a. For BIKINI ATOLL shots:

Command ship

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