spring 1953,
(The skin damage observed on shee; in the spring 1953 vas not
established te be beta burns.)
Rowever, the axact positions of the enixals
in relation to know sucunta of fallout are not clear.
Pollowing the last detonation of the syring 1952 series af the Nevada
Proving Grounds, about one half of a herd of 150 head of cattle were found
to have evidense of beta burns, They were thought to have been 15-20 miles
fron ground sero in Kawieh Valley to the northeast and to have been exposed
to fallout from the last detonation,
dose rate readings
(14 ET on a 300 foot tower) Righest
taken along « dirt road ruming
this valley, integrated
lengthvise through
to 75-100 infinity gamma doses.
During Upshot-fnothole, 16 horses showed skin lesions over the back
ant eye danage was noted in a fev.
The dest evidence indicated that the
horses vere some G10 niles to the east ef ground zero on 17 Mareb 1954,
where the falloct occurred from the first detonation (16 KT en a 30 foot
tower).
Radiation levels in this area are not know with certainty but
the fallout eecurred in ea narrow band and was carried by relatively bigh
velocity winds se that it probably
one hour.
fell on the horses at a tine less than
If go, probably more than one-half of the infinity dese vas
delivered during the next day.
Quereiional Feasibility
Under the eriteria recomended in folicy I], there would have been
two occasions in the past where personnel would have been requested to
pr or Ram ee
Gaveneaie ink
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