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These operations will not be
conducted in the expectation of possible hazard,
but for scien-
tific purposes and to keep the public informed on levels of
radioactivity.
Information will be provided by two monitoring networks,
one consisting of 42 stations established by the U. S. Public
Health Service and the other consisting of monitors at 11 Com-
mission installations.
are in Tables I and II.
The locations of these monitoring stations
The Public Health Service established its country-wide
monitoring system in 1956 in connection with the REDWING series
of tests at the Commission's Eniwetok Proving Ground.
Under a
contract between the Public Health Service and the Commission
the monitoring system will operate throughout the year.
The Public Health Service monitoring stations will take
daily radiation readings and collect filter samples of radio-
activity and will forward these to a central collection office in
Washington.
The stations also will report data to the Health
Officers of the states or territories in which the stations are
located.
They will be manned by trained technicians from state
health departments,
tions.
local universities and scientific institu-
Still another network in the United States gathers
data which is used in a long range scientific study of the be-
havior of radioactive materials in the environment and their ef-
fect on man.
This network consists of 46 U. S. Weather Bureau
and 8 Atomic Energy Commission stations which collect fallout
Samples at selected locations throughout the nation and its
territories.
Measurements of Radioactivity
Outside the U. S.
Samples of airborne dust will be taken at approximately
70 localities throughout the world, in addition to the 46 U, S.
stations.
Soils also will be sampled on a world-wide basis, and
Samples of other materials such as milk and cheese, field crops
and human and animal bones will be taken for analysis of their
Strontium-90 content.
This program is part of the Commission's
Project Sunshine, a study of the world-wide distribution and uptake of radio-active fission products, particularly strontium-90.
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