any one shot did not materially interfere with preparations for the next. In
certain cases, crude decontamination measures were necessary in order to
reduce the contamination level to a point where a normal day'a labor could
be performed without excessive dosage resulting. Gensrally, road-scraplnog
and bulidozing operations were all that was necessary. Table 2.1 gives the
firing achedule for Eniwetok Atoll.
TABLE 2,1—FIRING SCHEDULE, ENIWETOK ATOLL
Date (M.L)
Local Time
La Crosse
S May 56°
0625:29
Yuma
28 May 56
0756
Erie
31 May 56
0615:29
Seminole
6 June 56
1255:30
Blackfoot
12 June 56
0626
Kickapoo
14 June 66
1126
Osage
16 June 56
1313.53
Inca
22 June 56
0956
Mohawk
Apache
3 July 56
0606
9 July 56
0606
22 July 56
0616
Shot
~
Huron
2.2.1fta Crass
mroduced significant amounts of contamination on all
{islands north of KNunit. Survey results four hours after shot time are shown
in Fig. 2.1. Because of contamination, the camps on Rojoa and Teitetripucch!
were permanently closed after this shot. The camp on the south end of Runit,
however, was not significantly contaminated and {t was re-occupted. Decon~
tamination around the air dispatcher's office on Bifjirl and along the roads
within the Aomon-Rojoa complex was accomplished by using road scrapers
and bulldozers, This materially reduced the dosage that personne! recelved
in transit to working sites. In addition, the areas around the tower sites on
Runlt, Eberiru, and Aomon were decontaminated by scraping and filling, which
permitted work to continue there in a normal manner without exposing per-
sonnel to radiation doses in excess of the maximum permissible exposures.
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