Chapter 5
BADIOCEEMICAL SAMPLIGG
5.1
SamMPLE2 DES ICY
§.1.1
Inrroduction
therefore, to attempt to obtain a
woalysis as a yield check.
ris sample
or radiochesical
Additionally, if future tests are forced to high
altitodes by political pressures, sampling technique development vill have
been started.
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (J-1l Division) indicsted interest also
in obtaining a saexple from the rhodicm Labeled Orange shot.
Sandia agreed to
attempt to obtain a sample, prowided spare rocket motors were left ower from
a successful first Teak shot.
Later there was widespread interest in obrain-
ing a sample from Orange; plans for the shot were expanded to inclode three
sampler rockets on Orange at the expense of losing the complete repeat capabiliry on Teak.
,
_ These developments, together with LASL calculations on the debris behavior
of Teak shot, necessitated revisions of the sampling prograa.
The final plan
allocated tvo sampler rockets to Teak and four to Orange, with one spare sazpler for a second Teak shot.
Ome Teak sampler vas to be at apogee above the
burst at zero cine; the second vas to rise from beneath the burst to pass
through burst point twenty seconds after time zero.
The sanpler placed above
the burst was intended to saaple debris carried upward by an ismediate larze-
scale flow.
A calculation by LASL (J~-10 and T-5 Divisions) indicated that
such a flow would occur.
The second was a “hedge” in case debris behavior
was siallar to that for sea level detonations.
Such cariy aempiing was Gecesnety, Ovi vuly Ueceuse vi tiv Lise unese
tainties, but also because winds at burst altitude can be high and mapredictable.
A wind survey was conducted before the test to determine necessary viod
corrections.
Data on winds near Teak altitude are given in Section 5.3.
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