Held fest. * usta a plerntom man expesed To oobh the iaibia) and te ossdtach perdtadica btu depth doses for cach situation are shown an Fay. totoO, with all chat es per cent af the 2 centimeter dose. With the divereines rartial radiation Crom the pout of explosion, Fhe exit dase was oeen tobe 63 per cemtoaf the Soca dase, bul with the diffase residual treld ot Pisstoa preoduet cacdbia hon, a suarhiee dase sonte eight tomes preater than dhe So cn od deeper dosc toom the harder MDNR Components was observed. This is seen to be of the saaie order ob mapoitude as Chal estrmeted above. At herhts above and below the 3 foot devel this surtace dose world becom: lower cumnd higher respectively, but probably would not exceed 50 times the 3 boot air pacminns dose or #0 tines the nudline dose, even in contret with the pround. An estimuite of skin dose due to pround contimitiion for the Ronpelap case would result, for example, moa figure of whoul 2000 rep to the dorsum of the foot, 600 rep at the hip devel, and 300 rep al the head a rentinuous exposure with no shielding: occurred. Some reduction in dose undoubtedly resulted from shrelding and movement, and it seems probable that the extermel beta dose trom local skin contimimition fir outweighed that from the pround an iniportince. ‘Phis ts emphastzed by fhe fact that clothing probably reduced the beta dose trom the pround by LO to 20 per cen, *F. W. Chambers, Project 2.2b, Residual Gamma Depth Dose Measurements in UnitDensity Material, AFSWP, WT-719, Operation UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE.