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We had. Motored dawn a grassy
path, the brush slappins the sites of
aroave of | an immense trench dug
out from a conerety dleckhouse so
that instruments insite its slit open-
ings. built like a pillbox for men,
could “have a clear view down the
trench and into the eve of the white
storm at ground zerg,
These instruments ‘would. convert
the- story of the blast. told in miliiseconds’to jumping, erratic lines an
a graph, then phatagraphed remotely, then recovered in a harrowing
Jamies Band chase:
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Monttor radistion levels at the test
sites in addition to extensive field
That did happen in the cate of
“Mike,” cade oacne for America’s
first hydrasen beens Placed as hide
Elutelan, Eliueeian disaapeaped on
Oct Jl VAT Mieke wasnt really a
weapon. It was toa tis for ether aire
plane af Iqekrt)
‘A HELICOPTER Tards near,
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maze.to the helicnpter for the dath
people lo resume living here, ** Day
Sail The exception iat Runt
Royer Hay, a Dbyear veteran of
the AEC and the test seces, is as
adviser on the environmental aspects of the cleanup. He said, Tt
makes sense ta leave this. island
{Russ alone, and iet nature take its
courte rather than try lo remove the
blared”
blockhatise, the mon is the strand?
suit, as ‘iff %. visitor trom another
toanearby Parr Parry Island (sow
called Medren) for a bath anda hath
forthe helicopter, ail in pract:ecd
minutes and before faliout could
totally fog any film, even in such.an
inhuman dungeon... .
Alithe end .of this trenchwas a
crater called Cactus . Its water 54
feel-deep. had Ush, and on the
bumpy grass hills ahave the crater
walls was a fick! of orance flags an
poles, a mad: golf course in wareh
ench flat represented? 2 shan sunk
aplan which could certify| each islet
for future land use.
livity to acceptahie fevels to enable
our, truck, .On our left was the lang
galaxy, ‘dashes through a cenerets
“mnie, ‘through thick’ donned" doors
to, the ‘photo plates. Then he slaps
them into a lead satchel, undressed,
dressed in a new protective sult that
is ewaiting for him, back through th¢
“THE PURPOSE OF the cleanus
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the way wat fend.” Ray went on.
erence belween
a short time,
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time. ne sad
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work. even an Runit, where men
wearing only shorts, checked subsurface soil,
These findings, Ray said, showed’
that al same #) istets in the atoll that
stretches TZ] miles in length, which is.
nver the horizon to the naked eye,
gad 17 miles wide, 12 are considered
noncadinactive. 10 contain no debris
from the tests and 22 are suitable far
hahitation, threugh some are not
worth it.
-Later the monitoring equipment
aad techniques wil be used on Bikint. .
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ERDA made a movie in the: Marshallese language about its work:at
Runit to show the retumecs why th
island is to remain off- limits. .
“tPF YOU LIVED on an salgd'in
the south lagoon you would be as
-gafe as you would be in most U.S.
The cumulative effects of radizHanis the worry
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TOSMAPE A cleanup plan ERDA,
wording for veweral sears with
wrnentant sal diflereat specialties af
> Univeruty of Wasnington and
the Lawrence Livermore Laboratury
shed each tslandoain the atoll with
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Even helicaplers were used to
aot
cities," said Ray. ‘On the northern
islands the-danger factor woud in-
crease by three or four for the aver. |
are person over a long period, above :
whatis acceptable.”
Ray. a man with humanitarian
qualities, which may appear at ods
with his AEC background, is popular :
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tine damare would be bulldored
and another shot prepared at (he
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