necessitated a daily exchange of dosage information, primarily from Bikial
to Eniwetok, in order to maintain the master file.
Thia information was ex~
changed via the radio-teletype circuits.
All film processing at Eniwetok Atoll was carried out at the Rad-Safe
Building on Parry Island. At Bikini, dual processing equipment was main-
tained as the possibility of afloat operations, similar to Operation Castle,
was always present. A photodosimetry processing trailer, obtained from the
Army's Evans Signal Laboratory, was maintained aboard the USNS Alusworth
at all times,
Fortunately, no real need arose for its use.
Although the
photodosimetry facility in the Rad-Safe Bu{iding on Envu was always available,
the building suffered damage during the| Zuni and Navajo
tensive repair to the darkroom was required,
4.3
_|shots and ex-
Technical Overexposures
Prior to the fall-out at.Enlwetok resulting from the | TEWA
_\
shot, approximately 50 individuale of the entire Task Force had receive
tecknical overexposurea in excess of 3.9 r. The dosage received from fall-
out at Eniwetok Increased this number significantly, with approximately 600
persons exceeding the 3.9 r limit.
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