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OFSRATION HARDTACK
Radiological Safety Support for
all Target Fleet Projects.
The project will provide health physicists and Bureau of Ships and
shipyard personnel trained in radiation and contamination control.
The
project will assign a health physicist and monitor to each ship of the
target flect as required for radiological support. The necessary radiological sefety equipment and instrumentation will be provided.
The project will provide a floating rad-safe center on an APA.
This rad-safe center will be equipped to provide a personnel decontamination
facility capeble of processing 300 persons per dey, personnel protective
equipment stores, decontamination laundry, comniete photodosimetry services,
rsadiac issue, calibration and repatr facility ‘and a rad-safe training classTrooMe
The radiation dosage recording and reporting will be supplied by
this project through the use of mission end cperation film bedges. The
operation film badge will be used to measure the wearer's integrated gamma
dose over a three to four week period while the mission film badge will be
processed on a 24 hour schedule to measure the gamma dose a. person receives
in a short time interval,i.aperforming a mission in a Redex area. Betva
sensitive film badges will be provided as necessary as well as 0-5 r selfreading gamma dosimeters,
A Redex Survey of the target array will be made following each event.
The initial gress aecial monitoring survey will be made utilizing a P2vV-5
atreraft,oi equiva-ent, flying ovar the arrey at 500 feet at approximately
180 knots using allowance radiae equipment. The complete gross asrial survey
should be completed in less than an hour with a P2V-5 aircraft. Subsequent4
detaDed aeris? surveys will be made with a helicopter opeerating from the /
APA. These airevaft will be provided by the Logistic Air Support, Radex
information will be assembled at the Rad-Safe Certer on the APA and reentry
into the contaminated array will be controiled from the APA. The APA wiil
be moved inte the area of the contaminated array wien Radex information
indicates the radiation leveis in the area have decayed to acceptable
values, Subsequent reentry for purpeses of rearrengement of ships in the
array, deccntarination of the target ships for turn-around will te mede from
the APA.
The major rad-sefe support of this project will be devoted to the
turnaround of the target fieet. Monitors will accompany the decontamination
teams. The Red-Safe Center on the APA will be designed to provide dosimeter,
protective clothing issue and personnel decontamination facilities te process
300 persomnel per daye The meximum working day for the decontamination teams
will be reaiized by anchoring the floating rad-safe center in the niiiie of
the target fleet. Decontamination teams could be billeted on the Ata until
termination of the turnaround, or their replacement is required due to their
accumulated radiation exposures