“eoville said they had talked of doing this on like Shot, decided it w-s

net worthwhile, and no: wished they had dene so.
shot is moved to Rigili, they would drop this.

ry i]

However, if the

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This project also involves construction of a cubicle duplicating

the! 3,2 Knothole cubicle, to be near the OCI structure.
, they would want the cubicle on Bikini.
to

If the shot moves

rm

gee suggested that unless they want measurements in conjunction

with the 9ld/OCE structure, it would be mich better to do them on Bikini,
since Engébi/ isstill quite hot and there would be trouble instrumenting

the structures;s) }They agreed that if they could not instrument the OCE

structure, either because Engebi is too hot or because the shot is too far
away, the 3.1,1) portion of the project would be out but theywould still want

the cube on Bikini.,,This structure is to give one check point with the

Knothole test and is' all that is proposed in the line of test buildings.

Location desired for! the cube is in the 20-psi region.
3.2

Crater survey fxd Svaluation - (BRL)
(Only the

‘ 2 \ part

are amxious to get all the
they could within the lagoon

ter

bears on the operation overseas.)

The DOD

data they can, would make what surveys
he island and lagoon shots.

Ogle would argue thit/this is an automatic thing anyway; we have

to know this, so we request H&N +t
in detail in the past. He asked i
project?

e these surveys and they have done so
s were not enough, why make it another

The DOD plans were to get photography using the Army Map Service
personnel, as soon as possible after the jshot before there has been any backfilling of the lip, etc. They would thési
use a small boat to make a traverse
of the crater when this became possible,
.

fathometer to get points at the interfaces

indicated in the sketch.

The objection to

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a late survey is that this would measure only
the apparent crater instead of the actual one.

vad

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Cracked-up coral
sy

Coral
&
2

Sneay

The difficulty

of getting in early, because of thd’,contamination,

was mentioned, and the point was made that there was really

aq hurry, just

e the
so it happened before the next shot. Porzel thought one should
crater
the-tiike
that
evidence
is
there
because
survey as early as possible
how
explained
and
agreed,
Blunda
days.
shifted quite a bit for several

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