OPERATION REDWING -
DATE:
PUM:
PPG Time
eG dune 1990
0606
Dakota
Girl
25 dune 19.6
Sponsor:
1606
ayTe:
PAGK
PPC - Bikini - 6,000 fb
south of Dog
ie 36'
lo"
LGoe e7t
Site elevation:
HIGH? OF TIPST:
ON
OO"
Sea level
CurLlace
HETGHD OF BURST AID PLACIMEND:
Surface burst from barge on water
CLOUD TOP MSEGHPR:
75,000 ft MSL
CLOUD BOTTOM EMIGHE:
55,000 ft MOL
REMARKS:
Only island dose-rate readings are available.
They were ochtained from
aerial and gsround surveys made by the Radiological Safety Organization.
The t+? decay approximation was used to extrapolate the duse rate
readings to H+] hour.
This shot produced less contamination on the
islands than «expected.
However, the water adjacer.t to the northern
islands was heavily contaminated.
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