consist not only of normal monitoring activities but also, prior to
and during the test series, of learning the communities and families
in his zone, getting to know the people and having them know him.
In addition to the 17 zone commanders, as they are called, there are
eight mobile monitoring teams on call to go to any locality to assist
if needed or to travel to areas outside the 17 zones.
Four additional monitoring programs are also in operation.
One of these projects is primarily of research nature yet provides radiation monitoring data out to 160 miles or more from the test site.
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second program is a unique system of telemetering, whereby instruments
are placed in about 30 communities around the test site and connected
to commercial telephone wires.
‘The operator sits at the control point
and, by placing a normal telephone call, receives back signals that are
transisatei in a matter of seconds into gamma radiation dose rates.
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third project consists cl automatic instruments located in another 15
communttiss that cermanentiy record the gamma dose rates continuously
from the teginning to ine end cf the test series.
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sists cr serial survére with special gamma detection instruments.
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