requirement was reduced to a total of 20 monitors, including the
five on a semiapermanent basis mentioned above,
Due to the facts presented, it is recommended for future
operations that a change be made in the concept of backup monitors,
It is felt that the radiological safety organization shoyld be self~
supporting and only need to take personnel from other task groups in
case of extreme emergency.
The first two missions, already discussed, provided the
bulk of the radsafe activities during the period of this installment.
the other five radiological missions of CTG 7.2 are discussed briefly
below,
Ten decontamination personnel had been designated for
emergency decontamination support of TG 7.1 if required.
However,
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when decontamination personnel were needed, these ten were not
acceptable due to the fact that they had no "Q" clearance.
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fore, backup monitors were used as decontamination personnel.
The
decontamination support required "Q" cleared personnel despite the
fact that the CJTF SEVEN Operation Order 3-53 did not specify that
decontamination personnel required this clearance.
During the month of February, the three hour radiological
safety indoctrination course was repeated for all personnel who had
reported to the Task Group since the course had originally been
conducted.
The following missions provided no problems’ and were
accomplished with no difficulty:
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