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JCINT CFFICE OF TEST INFORMATION
FOR RELEASE IN AFTERNOON NEWSPAPERS,
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1956
PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
FOR ENIWETOK TESTS ANNOUNCED
Protection of the public health and safety is a
primary consideration in the conduct of the nuclear tests
which will begin in the Spring of 1956 at the Eniwetok
Proving Grounds.
Various precautions have been taken to keep significant radioactive fallout within the confines of the danger
area in the Pacific which was announced on March 1, 1956.
With the exception of Joint Task Force facilities, there
are no inhabited places within the danger arga.
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There is no reason to expect wna eyinsade
will occur outside the danger area, and it is highly unlikely that any inhabitants of atolls will have to be moved.
However, complete plans have been made for transportation
of the inhabitants should such action have to be taken.
Elaborate systems have been established to detect
and measure radioactivity in the vicinity of the Proving
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