reading on YAG-39 reached levels in excess of 400 R/hr about 17 minutes after the
detonation,
The washdown system that had been installed to decontaminate the
surfaces reduced this level to 0.040 R per hour 30 minutes after the detonation.
Recorded shipboard levels were less aboard YAG-40.
Both of these vessels had 48
asSigned personnel.
However, at the time of detonation only about 12 crewmembers
and project personnel were aboard each YAG.
Six crewmembers aboard YAG-39 and one
crewmember aboard YAG-40 received recorded exposures other than zero.
In each
instance, recorded film badge readings for crewmembers did not exceed 0.130 R.
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