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SEMINOLE EVENT
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SEMINOLE was detonated on the ground ai. BOGON Island (IRENE) in
the ENIWETOK Atoll at 12552m@, 6 cune 1956. ey
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Fallout prediction was based on ¢ raximun yield : a
ani a 30,000-foot cloud height.
16,000 feet.
Aecwuelly, the clovd rose to onhyabout
The lower po:-tion of the cloud followed the trade winds
moving west, while the upper one-fifth wes ceught in lov velocity westerlies,
The fallout followed the predicted peth; however, intensities hirher
than those predicted were encountered on BOW.IRIIK (HE.EN), the nearest
island west of the shot site.
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PeV aircrert based at Kwajalein fLew the two radiological
reconnaissance missions, YOKE end YORE 2, on SEMINGE-Day.
YOXE pattern,
tc the Southwest of ENIWETOK, encountered no radiat.on and was secured at
1700M, 6 June.
A second P2V, YOKE I, fiew a patter over the ENIWETOK
légoon calculated to intercept any movenent of racioactive fallout in the
direction of the task force fleet.
Wo radioactivity was encountered.
This
aircraft also conducted a lagocn ard «toll survey st EVWETCR anc returned
to base at 16301, 6 Cune.
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