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Radiation Readings on the Islands of Rongelap and Ailinginae Atolls
A summaryof the radiation readings obtained on the five study-collect-

ing trips in which the Applied Fisheries Laboratory participated from
March 26, 1954 to November 7, 1955 is given in Table 1.
On the October 21-23 survey, Mr. Robert Taft, Radiological Safety Officer of the AEC Resident Engineer's staff, accompanied the field party and
made the survey readings with a Beckman MX-5 meter.

All readings were

obtained one inch above ground and were recorded in millireps per hour.

The highest readings were again obtained on the more northern islands
of Kabelle and Labaredj where maximum readings were 4 mrep/hr with
the shield closed and 14 mrep/hr with the shield open.

Readings at Ronge-

lap Island and Enibuk Island (Ailinginae Atoll) were much lower than the
northern islands, in some cases approaching the background range of the

instrument (0.03 mrep/hr).
The individual readings for the October 21-23, 1955 visit, with the locations and terrain conditions, are recorded in Appendix A.

It was learned after the survey group of October 1955 had returned to
the Eniwetok Marine Biological Laboratory that the Division of Biology and
Medicine was in need of a complete survey of the islands with readings at

the three-foot level in addition to those previously taken at the one-inch
level.

On November 7, 1955, Seymour and Held were flown to Rongelap

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