-6REPORTS OF RAIN DC RINC BRAVO FALLOUT
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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

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