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strips, were exposed to contaminated surfaces,
Also, to register radiation
intensities received by the hands, personnel wore gloves with film strips
inside and out,
Yet another test, in which individuals rubbed their bare
hands over contaminated areas, produced readings 30 per cent of the
intensity found on the contaminated surfaces ,»° Altogether, the Center's
survey group studied 1? airplanes with contamination readings that ranged
from a density of 1 roentgen up to 1h roentgens,
Five members of the survey
team took part in all of the 17 surveys and no team member absorbed more
radiation than the Atomic Energy Commission's tolerance limit of 3.9
reentgens,
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One phase of this study caugit.the attention of newspapers. To get
information from an atomic cloud more quickly than that obtained by
sampler aircraft, Research Directorate officers used several T-33 jet
trainers and flew into the cloud mich earlier,*’
One newspaper reported,
"A group of dare devil Air Force scientists are making flights through
the boiling reddish-brown atomic cloud in the interest of radiation
research. . ."
headlines:
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An Albuquerque, New Mexico, newspaper ran the following
"Inside of A-Cloud Colored Brick Red, Kirtland Scientists,
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Pilots Report," ©“
However, the film badge experiments fascinated reporters.
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