a
177
a
ought to produce a good deal of information.
It isn't ag bad as I think you intimated, per~
haps with somewhat of a disappointment.
There are a couple of hundred
thousand kilotons of fission,
kilotons,
MR. EISENBUD:
DRe CLAUS:
A souple of hundred
All right, several
hundred ~ about a third of a megaton , let's
put it that way, but the chot 1s big enough
to carry the stuff pretty high, so that you
get distribution,
It's true that the quantity is
going to be more difficult to study which is
the activity when it disintegrates; there's
@ good deal of it and it ia going to be
carrieit out and distributed over a sizeable
area gO thet if one can measure at these
levels with any degree of accuracy, we should
get a pretty nice determination of the pattern,
ZI believe that if you folks at
NRL
concentrate on that one shot, which comes early
—
hoy
in the business 30 that there will not be s0
much attenuation, perecnnel and equinment
should get some very worthwhile recults,