built to link them.
This causeway was constructed from onsit@
and shored on either side by bulkheads.
materials
Before the CASTLE segies got
underway, Eneman, Lele, and Bikdrin islands had also been linWed with the
airstrip islands to form a complex 3 miles
wheeled vehicles.
(4.8 km)
long, traWersable by
Additional causeways were constructed in 1953 that
Joined Iroij, Odrik, Lomilik, and Aomen islands in the northeastern arc of
the Bikini islands.
A causeway westward over the reefs from Nam in the
northwest portion of Bikini was also built during 1953, termimating at an
artificial island that became the detonation point for BRAVO, Jthe first
test of the CASTLE series.
Camps were also built on Nam, Lomilik, and Eneu to house
nstruction
workers building the test-related structures on or near these fislands and
island complexes.
tion was
(POL)
According to the directives of the AEC, al}
to be of an expendable nature.
A petroleum, oil,
and
construclubricants
storage area was also built on Lele to serve the main c
Kini at Eneman.
Figure 9 shows the Eneman base camp viewed f
goon looking south-southwest.
for the KOON device.
The large building in the centd@r is the cab
The island to the right is Enidrik and
line shaved down its center
for
s a blast
the KOON test.
Radiological Conditions in 1954
The CASTLE planning literature refers to a detailed andc
survey of the radiological condition of the islands at Enewet
just before CASTLE.
No record, however, has been found of this.
There-
fore, in order to assess the possibility of task force personel exposure
to ionizing radiation while preparing for CASTLE,
it is possilfle only to
discuss the test activities that had taken place at Enewetak
d introduce
any anecdotal or partial information that is available.
Enewetak had been used for nuclear tests in 1948, 1951, a
SANDSTONE (1948)
1952.
detonations on Enjebi, Aomon, and Runit left
these -islands contaminated.
In February 1949, a survey party [from the
Hanford, Oak Ridge, and Los Alamos laboratories of the AEC fo
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