OPFRAVION REDWING

DATE:
TIMS:

PPG Time
14 June 1956
1126

Kickapoo

GMP
13 June 1956
2326

Sponsor:

SITE:

UCRL

PPG - Eniwetck - Sally

“47?
162°

3H'
19'

Site elevation:

HEIGHT OF BURST:

38"
11"

ON
£E

Sea Level

300 ft

TYPE OF BURST AND PLACEMENT:
Tower burst over coral scil

CLOUD TOPHEIGHT:
CLOUD BOTTOM HEIGHT:

16,000 ft MSL
11,000 ft MSL

REMARKS:
Only island dose-rate readings are available.
These were
obtained from aerial and ground surveys made by the Radiological Safety
Organization.
The zRe? decay approximation was used to extrapolate the

dose-rate rradings to H+l hour.
on Sally, the shot island.

Heavy contamination was enccuntered only

Significant alpha (plutonium) contaminution

was also found on the shot island.

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