II. B. Radiological Safety Criteria for the Public
INTRODUC TION
The criteria and procedures set forth in the following paragraphs
were established after full consideration for protecting the health and
welfare of the public, both in terms of radiological exposure as well as
possible hazards, hardships or inconveniences resulting from disruption
of normal activities.
Criteria are established as ghides for the Test
Organization in determining whether any special actions should be taken
to protect the public,
These criteria are not established with the expectation that the
coming tests at the Nevada Test Site actually will result in radiation
levels which will be greater than heretofore.
Rather, they formalize
past criteria to give even clearer guides for protecting the public,
With improved methods cf rredicting fallout and with the use of balloons and higher towers fcr detonating the nuclear devices, it is expec-
ted that fetlout in populated areas from future tests at the Nevada
Test Site will be less than the highest amounts which have occurred in
the past,
Two cazic assumntions are made in this report:
of the Division or sislogy’
and Mecicine to estaciish such criteria for the Atomic cnergy
Commission as deemed necessary to vrotect the health and wel-
Pare of the general populace fven consequences of Weapons tests
conducted at the Nevada Test Site.
b.
The operational procedures adopted for meeting these
criteria shall be the responsibility of the Test Manager, as
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