OPERATION SANDSTONE -

TATE:
TIME:

PPG Time

15 Apr 1948
O617

X-Ray
Sponsor:

GMT

14 Apr 1948
1817

SITE:

LASL

PPG - Eniwetok - Janet
11° ho’)
ON

162° 14!

37"

Site elevation:

TOTAL YIELD:

37 kt

HEIGHT OF BURST:

&E

Sea level

200 ft

TYPE OF BURST AND PLACEMENT:
Tower burst over coral soil

FIREBALL DATA:
Time to lst minimum:
NM
Time to 2nd maximum:
NM
Radius at 2nd maximum:
NM
CRATER DATA:.

CLOUD TOP HEIGHT:
56,000 ft MSL
CLOUD BOTTOM HEIGHT:
25,000 rt MSL

Not available

REMARKS:
No fallout pattern available.
Ground Zero and showed a decay

Radioactive samples were taken from
Also much

activity due to Na®* was observed.

Cloud reached the tropopause

in 12 minutes.

14

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