Jes of washdown water were collected on the YAG 39 with a
7-in. fun-

‘gel which was fitted into a hole in the deck and connected by a long piece

‘ef tygon tubing to a collecting bottle just above the recorder room where
ghe personnel were stationed.

Radioactive washdowm weter was collected

rting at U+1.2 hr. The rate of collection was apnroximately 200 ml/nr.

f

first 50 ml measured 10 r/hr at the surface of the container; it was
uted and aliquoted for decay measurements, On U+1.4 days, the bottles

YMG 39 were received at the field laboratory.

Their average reading

69 + 5 mr/nr; the funnels measured 24+ 4 mrfnr.

tles were sent to USNRDL.

Six of the 12

TABLE 33 - Samples from Shot 3
tation

Volume

(m1)

——

$-250.05

3250.05
§-250,97
§~250.07

1365

1822
1650
1065

Total Count at
Gamma

Beta

30.6

48.0

31.4
14.64
26.3

$2250.98

1020

35.7

9-251.02

1160

36.8

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355
166

Description

K+7,3 days
(c/n x 1077)

53.1
3.33

Comments

=>

Liquid and solid Buoy - Tc(4)

42.5
23.8
42.3

Liquid and solid Raft = TC
Liquid and solid Raft = TC
Liquid and solid Raft - TC

82.1
5033

Liquid and solid
Liquid and solid

56.6

57.8

Liquid and solid

Raft - TC

TC
306) 74 bottle}

Liquid and solid |TC (island)

Project 2.5a total collector

Project 2.4a triple bottle collector

On the YAG 40, significant differences were found in the sampla
collected on each side of the bridge. “onsiderable rain had fallen
before the samples were recoverad, Bottles from the port side read

24 +3 ur/hr on U+4 days; the funnels averaged 6 +1 mr/nr; and the

average water volime was 376 + 68 ml. Bottles from the starboard side
read 28 + 8 mr/hr; the funnels averaged 10 + 3 mr/nr; and the liquid vol.me was 911 + 80 ml,

On that day, the average total gamma count was

4.67 x 107 c/m per bottle for port side collectors ani 13.2 x 107 c/n

per bottle for starboard collectors or 2.8 times as much activity for the
collectors which had been directly exposed to the drifting fallout.
In addition, on U-day wipe samples were taken from an F-84 which

had flown through the cloud. These read as high as 35 r/hr at about
U+6hr.

The early decay of these wipe samples was much slower than

that of the fallout collected on the YAG 39. Since considerable fractionation would be possible during contamination ami decontamina‘ion of
the aircraft, these samples were not considered to be truly representative
of the material in the cloud. Although these samples were given rather
extensive treatment, only the data for iodine analysis will be reported,

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