At Enewetak, TG 7.2 used an "electronic" radiation monitdr

an ion chamber) coupled to an Esterline-Angus recorder.

In

(presumably

addition, a

cascade impactor driven by a Gast pump and an Electrolum sampler were in
operation under the supervision of the TG 7.2 Radsafe Officer

Specialized instrumentation (described on page 138) was ifstalled in
the TG 7.4 sampler aircraft to alert pilots to both dose ratejJand cumulative dose.

Three types of pocket dosimeter, the Victoreen (0 to 5 R)@

the Cam-

bridge (0 to 1 R), and the Keleket (0 to 0.2 R)}, were used by
were found to be unreliable.

monitors but

The dosimeters reportedly gave rbadings that

were consistently high by a factor of two; of those used, 63 pkrcent either
became inoperative or were lost (Reference 17, pp. 43~44).

7.3 com-

C

mented that about 15 percent of its pocket dosimeters would no

hold a

charge and generally proved to be “awkward and slow" in operatdon (Reference ll, p. 11b-1).
No information has been found regarding the methods used tq calibrate
the survey meters except for a paragraph in Reference 25 that iftdicates:

1. Some meters may not have been calibrated before use
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2. The calibration may have been against

Co or

Ra

3. The low range on the AN/PDR-39 and the AN/PDR-TIB wa
not calibrated.
PERSONNEL FILM BADGES AND RECORDS.

Personnel film badge doqgimetry em-

ployed badges that combined two types of film to achieve an extdnded range
of exposure readings.

DuPont 502 provided low dose coverage, refsonably

accurate between 0.1 R and 3.0 R and usable to about 10 R.

DuPpnt 606,

with a range of approximately 10 R to 300 R, ensured high dose c
however, this particular combination of films had decreased accu

the region of 10 R to 15 R.

Both films were probably used in ev

this range (Reference 17, p. 43).
The initial plan was to badge "all personnel expected to recai
nificant amounts of radiation... [and]... a representative

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