| before, during and after "EASY" shot.
This test presented an opportunity to combine
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measured pressures,
typical operational photography with known structures and
structural damage result—
also provided a means of training personnel in predicting
ing from blast and incendiary effects of an atomic weapon.
The addition of Low-
ll pictorial reoblique pictures gave additional details of damage and also an overa
The accomplishment of these objectives was realized
cord of the results of the test.
and a group of excellent pictures was obtained.
8,
FILM FOGGING STUDIES
a.
The last project of this program was.a survey of the cffeets of film
fogging as a function of nuclear radiation dosage,
of the Strategic Air Commnd.
shot.
It was undertaken at the request
The main experimental work was performed on "GEORGE"
The film was Air Foree types "N" and "L" and it was cxposed to radiation under
simulated operational conditions,
Loaded A~5A magazines were placed at four similar
stations in the Strategic Air Command RB-29 and the two (2) WR+29 manned samplers.
Two magazines were placed in cach of the AEC drones, one in the bomb bay and one in
the radio compartment.
Ten (10) mgazines were plaecd on the ground in the vicinity
of the explosion, with cach film type represented at five Locations.
b.
Early inform:tion on the film that has becn developed indicates that
the film density (fogging) increases with the dosage, that in the lower dosage level
the readability of the filn is good, and that "L" type film is more dense than "NR
type film for an equal dosage,
However, "N" type film shows more mottling.
Also,
it appears that there is more random fogging on film carried in bomb bay and unpres-—
surized or unscaled compartments, probably duc to particulate contamination,
dosage range was from about O,5r to greater than lOOr.
The
The final GREENHOUSE report
will. cover not only the complete results of the experiment, but will also correlate
thein with the results of other film fogging studies made by Los Slamos Laboratory on
ather shots,
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