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REDWING; NAVAHO BURST; PROMPT GAMMA RADIATION; GAMMA
DETECTION; GAMMA RADIATION; DISTANCE

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WT--904
Ground level pressures from surface bursts.
Project 1.2a [of] Operation Castle
PERSONAL AUTHOR/AFFIL Broyles, C.D.; Merritt, M.L.
CORPORATE SOURCE
Sandia Corp., Albuquerque, NM (United States)

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The objective of Project 1.2a was to study
ground-level pressures from surface bursts. Measurements
were made with Wiancko gages mounted flush with the

ground. When the hydrodynamic fireball yields are the

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reference yields peak pressures generally correspond to
about 1.6W instead of 2W free air. However, duration and
positive pressure impulses correspond to somewhat
greater than 2W. Shot 3 was detonated in the rain and
showed the effects thereof in low pressures and rounded
wave-forms. Nonideal waveforms obtained from most of the
shots indicate that water does not constitute a
perfectly reflecting surface, as has sometimes been
assumed.

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SURFACE BURSTS; CASTLE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PEAK
PRESSURE;GROUND LEVEL

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WT--952
External neutron measurements.

Operation Castle

Project 14.1

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72. PERSONAL AUTHOR/AFFIL Biggers, W.A.; Brown, L.J.; Kohr, K.C.

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Los Alamos Scientific Lab.,

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The external neutron threshold measurements made
at Operation Castle in the spring of 1954 consisted of
the use of zirconium, arsenic, iodine, thallium, and
sulfur to measure the higher energy neutron flux, and
gold samples to measure the thermal neutron flux. The
iodine also measured high-energy gamma ray intensity.
Measurements were made on five shots: Shrimp, Runt I,
Alarm Clock, Runt II, and Zombie.
CASTLE; NEUTRON MEASUREMENTS ;NEUTRON DETECTORS;
THRESHOLD DETECTORS; ZIRCONIUM; ARSENIC; IODINE; THALLIUM;

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