Abstract: The Greenhouse operation consisted of a series of four shots
conducted at Eniwetok during the Srping of 1951. The external neutron
threshold measurements consisted of the use of good samples to measure
integrated thermal neutron fluxes and sulfur, iodine, and zirconium
samples to measure fluxes of higher-energy neutrons. The iodine also
measured high-energy gamma-ray

intensity.

Measurements were also made

on slow- and fast-neutron intensities as a function of time.

Major Descriptors: *GAMMA SPECTRA -- ACTIVATION DETECTORS; *GREENHOUSE
PROJECT; *NEUTRON FLUX -- ACTIVATION DETECTORS; *NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS -GAMMA SPECTRA; *NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS -- NEUTRON FLUX
Descriptors: FAST NEUTRONS; GOLD; IODINE; NEUTRON DETECTORS; SAMPLING;
SULFUR; THERMAL NEUTRONS; TIME DEPENDENCE; ZIRCONIUM
Broader Terms: BARYONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ELEMENTS; EXPLOSIONS;
FERMIONS; HADRONS; HALOGENS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; METALS; NEUTRON
DETECTORS; NEUTRONS; NONMETALS; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEONS; RADIATION
DETECTORS; RADIATION FLUX; SPECTRA; TRANSITION ELEMENTS

Subject Categories: 450202*
Weaponry -- (-1989)
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Author(s):

-- Explosions & Explosives -~ Nuclear --

tItem 224 from file:

ERA-12-005103;
Hall, W.C.

103)

EDB-87-005194

Title: Operation Greenhouse. Scientific Director’s report of atomic weapon
tests at Eniwetok, 1951. Annex 1.1. Prompt-gamma-ray measurements. Part
2. Prompt-gamma-ray intensity as a function of time
Corporate Source:
Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC (USA)
Publication Date: 1 Sep 1985
p V1
Report Number(s):
AD-A-995350/6/XAB
Document Type:

Report

Language: English
Journal Announcement: EDB8611
Availability: NTIS, PC AO4/MF AOl.
Subfile:

BRA

(Energy Research Abstracts).

GRA

(NTIS NTS)

Country of Origin: United States
Country of Publication: United States
Abstract: This report describes the procedure followed and the results
obtained in measuring, as a function of time, the prompt gamma
radiation emitted within 1,000 seconds after the explosion of the
atomic weapons studies in Operation Greenhouse. The design of the
experiment and a description of the equipment are given. The fast
coaxial scintillation detectors for the Greenhouse test were used

without collimators at a distance of several mean free paths from the

source. Numerous factors complicated the interpretation of the data
obtained, thus reducing the accuracy that may be ascribed to the
results. The probable peak gamma-ray intensity, the time of occurrence
of the peak, and the prompt-gamma decay curves as a function of time
were obtained for each shot. A composite decay curve fitting all the
shots was obtained, and from this, a scaling factor was deduced which
related the shot energy to the gamma-ray intensity.

Major Descriptors: *GREENHOUSE PROJECT; *NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
RADIATION; *PROMPT GAMMA RADIATION -- MEASURING METHODS

Descriptors: DECAY; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS
Broader Terms: ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EXPLOSIONS;
IONIZING RADIATIONS;
RADIATION DETECTORS;

Subject Categories:
Weaponry --

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Author(s):
Baker,

MEASURING INSTRUMENTS;
RADIATIONS

450202*

(-1989)

J.W.;

GAMMA RADIATION;

NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS;

-- Explosions & Explosives -- Nuclear --

(Item 225 from file: 103)
ERA-12-005102; EDB-87-005193
Reed,
D.J.

-- PROMPT GAMMA

Gauvin,

H.P.;

Cahill,

J.P.;

Grenier,

J.W.;

Title: Operation Hardtack. Project 8.8. Thermal radiation from low-yield
nuclear bursts. Report for April-October 1958
Corporate Source:
Kaman Tempo, Santa Barbara, CA (USA)

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