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SUBJECT:
18 March 1954
Radiological Surveys of Several Marshall Island Atolls...
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1. Attached herewith for your information and retention are copies of
radiological surveys made on certain Marshall Island Atolls. The surveys
were conducted as a result of contamination deposited on the affected atolls
by BRAVO Shot, Operation CASTLE, fired from a reef approximately one and one
half nautical miles southwest of Nam, Bikini Atoll,
1845 Zebra, 26 February 1954.
2.
Water and soil samples were shipped to the Health and Safety Labora-
tory, New York Operations Office,
Merrill Eisenbud)
for analysis,
Atomie Energy Commission (Attention: Mr.
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FOR THE COMMANDER:
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USS PHILIP (DDE-498)
USS NICHOLAS (DDE-449)
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3 Incls:
1. Report on Soil and Jater Sampling
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2. Report on 30il and later S:mpLing
wission by or. 2. Lh. white, LASL
3. Rad. Survey of Dosnwind Atolls contaminated
by BRAVO by Dr. Herbert scoville
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