OPERATION CASTLE

DATE:

TLMis:

PPG time

7 Apr 1954

0620

- Koon

Sponsor:

Gr

6 Apr l9o4

SITs:

1820

UCRL

PPG - Bikini - Tare

11° 29g!
165° ee!

48"
O3"

Site elevation:

110 kt

FIREBALL DATA:
Time to lst winimum

WDIGHT OFBUROT:

Sea

level

13.6 ft

53,000 ft MSL
CLOUD TOP _HELGHT:
NM
CLOUD BOTTOM TiSiGir:

52.9 4 2 msec
= PD
=

TOTAL YIELD:

N
E

Time to end maximum:
Nk
Radins at end maximum:
NM

CRATER DATA:

Diameter:
Depth:

800 ft
75 ft

TYPE OF BURST AND PLACEIMEN?:
Surface buret from platform on
coral soil

REMARKS:
The on-site fallout pattern was constructed from survey readings made
py technical project persennel and by the Redivlogical Satety organizution,

plus conversion of uctivity measurements of fallout samples collected on
rafts and free-floating buoys anchored in the lagoon.
The fallout
ocenrred jidcally with respeet to the measurenent stations so that more
eadings than usual were available.
The dose-rate readings were
extrapolated to H+] hour by using actual rield decay rates

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