-6REPORTS OF RAIN DC RINC BRAVO FALLOUT
Transcripts
occurred
briefings
of post-detonation
for a short
time
after
suggest
Bravo was detonated.
fishing ship, No. 5 Fukura Maru (Lucky Dragon),
the exclusion
light
rain
zone, noted that the initial
or
self-induced
probabIy
drizzle.’ 17]
rainout,
a natural
Another
natives
of Rongelap
on their ship was accompanied
that
this
some. two or more
hours
after
They lived
Bravo’s
of
deto~ation;
the
it was
was made by a group of Rongelap
ii Rongelap
that it “rained a little”
Atoll, and stated
was a continuation
by “a
on the debris cloud.
of rain during Bravo fallout
[8]
rainout
The crew of the Japanese
is unlikely
evacuation.
self-induced
while fishing ciown’,vind just outsi6e
fallout
rain system superimposed
report
after
It
that
Village,
on the southern
during the efternoon
part
of March
lst.
Another
interview
been on Rongerik
survey
ship’s captain
mentioned
wes not specific
days
at Utirik
at about
at Majuro disclosed
disclosed
noon on March
and arrive
radiation
that
operator
[8]
who had
“rain commenced
about
where
or when.
possibly
Bravo debris
at about 100 mr/h.
Lines, left
2, 1954.
Kwajalein
at 0945
The ship left
Utirik
of 10 to 30 mr/h on March 7. The
that he had encountered
fallout,
(when the
radio
at ?dajuro Atoll on March 7. A radiological
readings
rain squalls during his voyage, but
It appears
accompanied
or while in harbor at Utirik.
earlier
estimated
about
Bravo
approaching
Force
for 30 minutes.”
a few days later)
encountered
Air
the S. S. Roque, owned by Micronesia
LST and arrived
(apparently
en American
Atoll prior to evacuation
2100 [LST] a~d continued
Finally,
with
certain
by rain
that
the S. S. Roque
shower%
either
while
If 10 mr/h are “grown backn to five or six
cloud
passed
near
Utirik),
the dose rate
is