The results of the NYKOPO flights are given in Table 56.
The Air Force
detected low-level activity at numerous locations in the mid-Pacific from
H+50 to H+113, but the samples may not have been from the NECTAR detonation
(Reference 16,
Table 56.
Tab P,
Pp.
33).
CASTLE, NECTAR airborne monitoring survey results of the AEC
New York Operations Office.
Flight Able
Local
Time
(15 May)
a
Location
Max imum
Ground
Reading
(R/hr)
Other NYKOPO Flights
Local
Time
(16 May)
Maximum
Ground
Reading
(R/hr)
Flight
Date
Max imum
Ground
Reading
(R/hr)
Lae
0722
0.00020
0647
0.00008
Baker
16 May
0.00015
Ujae
0733
0.00008
0657
0.00006
Charlie
16 May
0.00010
Wotho
0800
0.00008
0722
0.00008
Ailinginae
0854
0.00140
0823
0.00080
Rongelap Island
0907
0.00580
0836
0.00420
Ronger ik
0925
0.00580
0854
0.00300
Taongi
1046
0
1006,
0
Bikar
1142
0.00300
1103
0.00170
Utirik
1204
0.00100
1124
0.00080
Taka
1208
0.00100
1125
0.00060
Ailuk
1228
0.00040
1134
0.00010
Jemo
1248
0.00040
1157
0.00020
1335
0.00010
1202
0.00010
1335
0.00010
1236
0.00008
Likiep
-
Kwajalein
Note:
@atoll unless otherwise indicated.
Source:
Reference 16.
AIRCRAFT DECONTAMINATION.
Following NECTAR, the aircraft sat for 24
hours while the contamination decayed to lower levels.
The aircraft were
contaminated less by NECTAR than any other CASTLE series event
57).
(see Table
Releases were made with intensity levels on all aircraft below 0.400
R/hr as
the
series concluded.
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