selected isotopes of elements of biological interest and following their movement in the fauna and flora.
D.
Alaska Harbor Program--Project Chariot
Supervisor:
Allyn H.
One project of the U.
Seymour
S. Atomic
Energy
Commission's
Plowshare Program for the peacetime use of atomic
known as the Chariot Project.
energy is
This project calls for the
underground detonation of nuclear devices near Cape Thompson
on the Arctic coast in northwest Alaska for the purpose of
making a surface excavation.
operation is the
A name commonly given to this
"Alaska Harbor Project,"
although there are
no plans for developing the excavation into a harbor.
In fact
the detonation of the devices has not been approved; however,
in the spring of 1959 the Division of Biology and Medicine of
the AEC was granted approval to initiate an ecological program
from which the biological cost of the experiment could be
evaluated in the event
approval is granted.
The Laboratory of Radiation Biology was asked by the Division
of Biology and Medicine to assist by planning the marine
of the program,
other than
for marine mammals.
part
The principal
objectives of this project were to determine the circulation of