4.13.3
Dose Summary for Operation REDWING.
TEWA, the last REDWING event fired at Bikini, led to an increase in
personnel doses.
The edge of the TEWA cloud passed over Enewetak causing
fallout on the Enewetak base camp.
Because the incident occurred toward the
end of the series, some personnel had already returned to the U.S. (17: 3,4).
The remaining Enewetak personnel, however, received additional doses
calculated at 2.0 to 3.3 rem from this incident (17: 3,4).
The personnel limit was 3.9 rem of gamma radiation for the series.
The
highest doses were received by Air Force flight officers whose missions
required them to penetrate the clouds resulting from the nuclear detonations
(17: 3,4).
Summary of External Doses for Operation REDWING as of 1 May 1986
Gamma Dose (rem)
0-0.5
0.5-1
Army
89
262
Navy
2,987
3-5
5-10
308
649
144
0
1,843
1,581
225
18
0
769
289
938
717
86
12
Marine Corps
59
67
118
9
0
0
Civilian DOD
Participants
62
5
38
1
0
0
Air Force
1-3
10+
4.14 OPERATION PLUMBBOB.
Conducted at the Nevada Test Site from 28 May to 7 October 1957,
Operation PLUMBBOB included the 24 nuclear detonations summarized in the
accompanying table.
The series also included six safety experiments,
conducted to ensure that no nuclear reaction would occur if the high explosive
components of the device were accidentally detonated during storage or
transport (18: 1,6,7).
These tests are discussed with the subsequent safety
experiments in section 4.18.
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