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be as late as 1 September.
It will not be possible to open
this area to transient shipping between shots, since it is
impossible to predict more than two or three days in advance
when we will be able to detonate the next shot.
A shot will not be fired unless the forecast of the
pattern of significant fallout is entirely within the Danger
Navy PV patrol aircraft will start searching this area
Area.
after 20 April and will continue wutil after the last shot.
These patrols, which are made for the purpose of discovering any
transient shipping, will be intensified before each shot,
especially in the areas of the forecast fallout.
If a transient ship is discovered in the area of forecast
fallout for any shot, that shot will not be detonated until the
The search planes will attempt to advise the
area is cleared.
master of the transient ship to leave the Danger Area, and the
plane commander will indicate a course which will permit the
ship to clear the area as soon as possible.
If the search plane
cannot communicate with the transient ship, the search plane
commander will notify Task Force Headquarters by radio. A.
destroyer or other ship will be dispatched to communicate to the
transient vessel by radio, by flag signal,
request to leave the Danger Area.
or otherwise, a
In the event the master of
the transient ship refuses to leave the area, this information
will be passed to Admiral Hanlon, Task Force Commander, who will
request advice from CINCPAC and CNO, meanwhile postponing any
detonations.
VII. RADSAFE MONITORING STATIONS
The Task Force will place qualified RadSafe monitors with
equipment on a number of inhabited atolls to the east and south
of the Pacific Proving Ground.
This was not done on Operation
Castle.
The special RadSafe monitoring stations,
operated by
trained personnel, equipped with two-way radio communications
and radiac instruments, will be established on WOTHO, UJELANG,
UTIRIK, RONGERIK, KUSAIE, KAPINGAMARANGI, TARAWA, KWAJALEIN AND
RONGELAP,
(shown on RadSafe monitoring chart in red dots}.
In
addition, weather stations on MAJURO, PONAPE, WAKE, MIDWAY,
JOHNSTON, TRUK, GUAM and IWO JIMA (shown in blue dots) will be
equipped with radiation detection and measuring instruments.
These weather stations will report radiation intensities to the
Task Force.
The trained RadSafe monitor personnel at the populated
atolls will be able to advise the natives,
through interpreters,
of safety measures they should adopt if hazardous fallout occurs,
The RadSafe personnel can assist the native inhabitants until
they are evacuated, if this becomes necessary.
The RONGELAP
natives who were contaminated on Operation Castle suffered some
skin lesions, loss of hair, and temporary blood changes because
of the contamination they received,
If they had been advised to
wash themselves repeatedly in the lagoon at RONGELAP after the
dangerous fallout began,
any visible i111 effects.
they probably would not have suffered
Joint Task Force SEVEN has developed plans for the evac-
uation of natives from inhabited islands, should the situation
demand such action.
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