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753 parties containing 2,747 persons being processed at Bikini from
13 May 1958 to 1 August 1958.
20 The personnel decontamination station at Eniwetok handled a total
of 852 individuals while the facility at Bikini processed 1227.
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The following equipment was decontaminated:
Vehicles
Eniwetok
Bikini
591
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100
193
3*
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Helicopters
Hot park (equipment)
Aircraft
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20
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Processed by parent organization with radesafe advise.
The majority of the rad-safe surveys of both atolls were conducted by
helicopters.
Normal operations included a pre-entry survey with CTG 7.1
at H46 to 8 hours, and detailed surveys on the mernings of D/l and 2 days.
Additional surveys were made as required.
Instruments used in the surveys
included AN/PDR-39's converted to read to 500 rf/hr.
Ground surveys of
islands in the atolls were conducted when required.
Fallout occurred at both atolls from the Fir device commencing two
days after the event on Bikini with the highest background being 12 mr/hr
and one day after detonation at Eniwetok, the background being 30,000
counts for a two day period.
At Eniwetok fallout occurred from the Olive
device on 18 July for a period of three hours, the maximum intensity being
60, 000 counts per mimte.
background at Eniwetok,
The Poplar device caused a two day increase in
It has been estimated that personnel at Eniwetok
received a 1500 mr dose and Bikini personnel received a 300 mr dose from
fallout,
This dose in no way interfered with the mission of TU-6.
Fallout
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was not sufficiently high to hamper operations during the entire period,
A total of approximately 850 soil, water, and food samples were take.
by laboratory personnel,
An arbitrary limit of 500,000 disintegrations
per minute per liter of water was established as the tolerance level for
swimming.
Swimming areas at both atolls remained open during the entire
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