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here are eleven nuclear tests which may have deposited

radioactive materials in significant amounts greater than world wide fallout on several of the Pacific Atolls.

These events and the atolls they

may have contaminated are indicated in tabular form in Table 1.

Additionally,

the fallout pattern, if available, or several hodographs are indicated in
Figures through sg for each contaminatingevent.

XABEY For immediate

reference, the habitation of the atolls under discussion is indicated, with
yorulation figures and remarks, where applicable, in Table 2.
It is pertinent to note that in addition to

ENIWETOK, BIKINI, AILINGINAE,

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SONGSLAP, RONGERIX, BIKAR, TAKA, SMM UTIRIK, and LIKIEP atolls, which have

arct =. .922n looked at by others at some time in the past, several other atolls are
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indicated: AILUK, JENO, KWAJALEIN, LAE, MEJIT, TAONGI, UJAE, UJELANG, WOTHO

XXZ and WOTJE.

Since the utility of the studies Gongon BIKAR, TAKA, LIKT=>

and possibly AILINGINAS samt RONGERIK, and UTIRIK, is somewhat limited, these
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may also added to theexceptions above.

This would mean that, including

the "source" atolls of ENIWETOK and BIKINI, & total of 19 atolls may have

dean contaminated with ‘significant’ amounts of radioactive materials.

Only

on three, ENIAETOK, BIXINI and RONGEIAP, vossibly four if UTIRIK is included,
is there any usefuletiforpantay/f radiological data.
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Since actual fallout patterns are lacking for fost of the eentaminating~

“events, an attempt was made to weigh the potential of each event, in-euch -amanner as to make senge. Since the fallout pattern of the CASTLE BRAVO

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event is well known (actually there are three different fallout patterns
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available) this derosition potential was normalized to jthat-event.
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treatment ie presented in Table 3.

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The potential expressed here is really

a factor, or multiplier, of the CASTL2 BRAVO fallout.

It may be applied

eimriv by taking the CASTLE BRAVO deposition at a distance from the GZ -ead-

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