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Island, ar: ..aluation was made of the capabilities to support both operations
with personnel and eq:ipment from resources available in the EPG.
In ad~-
dition, an allout effort was directed towards the dismantling of the launch
tower and other APYA facilities on Bikini Island for shipment to Johnston
Island prior to the first large UCRL shot,
Prolonged bad weather delaved
this first shot and the island was evacuated completely without difficult.
Johnston Island operations will be discussed in Section 3.7.8.
Experience in the evacuation of Bikini Atoll gained from previous
operations was put to good use during this operation.
The evacuations cone
ducted for the atoll were all accomplished with no serious delays,
The TG 7.1 J-3 Section oublished Operational Letters for each shot as
follows:
Prediction of Effects and Operational Planning Factors.
Ready Date and Shot Times.
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Evacuation and Re-entry Check List.
Organization anc Movement of the Arming Team,
In addition, many of the early events which had heavy participation by the
scientific projects required operational letters outlining the scientific
frequency allocation and the plan for the movement and positioning of the
device from the weapons compound to the zero site area.
It was originally intended th2t the calculations for blast and therma_
effects woild be performed by a staff section of JTF SEVEN (FOPU).
However,
the Fallout PredictionUnit of JTF SEVEN did not arrive in the area until
approximately 10 April and became operational several days after that date.
In view of the early planned ready dates for some of the shots it was ne-
cessary th-t computations be performed for Teak, Orange, and other planned
early events,
These computations were performed by the J-~3 Section.
After
FOPU became operational, assistance in determining blast and thermal data
for several shots was provided the J=-3 Section but for the most part it
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