ghana
shipping,containers ) agd corrected to H + 1 hour, ranged from

1.4 X 10° to 46.8 X 10° disintegrations/min. The decay slopes for
samples from an evacuation filter and from a plastic sampler bag were

determined to be -2.08 and -2.35, respectively.

A preliminary report of this work appeared as CRLR-105.

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SPECIAL TROOPS AGAINST IONIZING RADIATIONS.

Alfred W. Klement, Jr., 22 June 1953.
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On the basis of an extensive literature search, deduction was

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FINAL REPORT ON THE FEASIBILITY OF BODY ARMOR FOR USE BY

made in CRLR 71 that body armor against radiation was feasible for use
by special troops.
This report describes tests in which the degree of
radiation attenuation by such armor was determined and corroborates the
deduction made in the earlier report.

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While exposure in the field would normally be to area-source

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radioactivity, both area- and point-sources were employed in studies of
attenuation by standard types of combat armor and the proposed lead type.
Actual attenuation of area-type radipactivity by lead body armor was

found to be close to that calculated from theoretical data.
Reduction
factors were slightly higher than those obtained in point-source
experiments.
These tests, which confirmed the feasibility of using lead
armor for partial body-protection against gamma radiation, also revealed
that present combat-type armors provide little or no protection against
ionizing radiations.
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A conclusion is also drawn in this report that reduction of
beta-particle intensity by ordinary clothing is slight.
Several layers
of clothing are required to reduce intensities by significant amounts.

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A preliminary report of this work appeared as CRIR-71.
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FALLOUT STUDIES ON ENIWETOK ATOLL (WI-617).

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E. H. Bouton, Phyllis B. Gordon, R. C. Tompkins,

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W. R. VanAntwerp, and E. F. Wilsey, 26 June 1953.
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Fallout arising from the surface detonation of a thermonuclear

device (Mixe Shot) and from the air burst of an atomic bomb (King Shot)

was collected by several different methods, and studied to determine the

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