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OPERATION REILJING

1,

The ERIE device was fired at Of15¢, 31 May 1956,

The device

<2s positioned atop a 300-foot tower located on RUNIT Island (YVONNE)

of 3NTWETOK Atoll. ‘he cloud reached an estimated heiht
“Se2t with the lower portion Bring to the West, and
ection moving to the Southwest.

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2.

The fallout forecast for ERIE was based on an expected yield

3.

Fost-shot surveys indicated a good agreement between ths fore-

«St end measured fallout.

The monitoring stations at WOTHO, UTIRIK

ard UJELANG reported no significant increase in radiation background

x ring the three days following ERIE.
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Based on the post-shot radiological surveys, reentry hour was

a:teblished as 08304, 31 May 1956,
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