III, B. Activity Concentrations in Air (Continued )
Upshot-Knothole (Spring 1953)
24-hour average concentration
Locality
(Microcuries per cubic meter)
Saint George, Utah
1.29
Lincoln Mine, Nevada
Mesquite, Nevada
4.0 x 10 “1
1.7 x 10-1
Groom Mine, Nevada
3.4.x 10-2
Pioche, Nevada
2.0 x 10-2
Nellis AF Base, Nevada
1.7 x 10 ~2
Ely, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
1.6 x 10 ~2
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1.0 x 10 ~2
Atomic Energy Commission's 14th Semi-Annual Repcort to Congress,
January-June 1953
Teapot (Spring 1955)
"-.-The highest concentration of radioactivity in the air following
any one detonation was at Ely, Nevada.
This amounted to about 6/100 of
a micrecurie per subie meter averaged over the 28 hours that the material
was cressnt in signifticent quantities.
The highest concentrations in air,
273 s¢ries, occurred at Ely, Nevada and Alamo, Nevada
where the total aczitisnal radiation doses to the lungs from inhaling
fallout usterisl were ostimated to be about equivalent to that expected
from creataoing air tenteining norzal amounts of naturally radioactive
moteriils, for s rerici of several days,"
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