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OPERATION REDWING:

DATE:

TIME:

PPG time

- Yuma

GMT

Sponsor:

May 1956
25 May 1956 27
1956

O756

SITE:

UCRL

PPG - Eniwetok - Sally

11° 30'
162° 18!

33" N
55"

Site elevation:

Sea Level

HEIGHT OF BURST: - 205 ft

CLOUD TOP HEIGHT:
8,000 ft MSL
CLOUD BOTTOM HEIGHT:
1,000 ft 145
TYPE OF BURST AND PLACEMENT:
Tower burst over coral soil

REMARKS:
Only island dose rate readings are available.
Thece were talen
from the aerial and ground surveys made by the Radiological Safety
organization.
The t71** decay approximtion was used to extrapolate
the dose rate readings to H+l hour.
Significant amounts of alpha

(plutonium)

contamination were found on the shot island.

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