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PROJECT SUNSHINE (UNCLASSIFIED)
‘Project SUNSHINE is‘the study of worldwide radioactive fallout from.weapons testing and
evaluation of its hazard to.man: While these studiesare not directly concernfd with evaluating
the hazards of local fallout in the vicinity. of an explosion, data obtainedfromflocal fallout
studies are useful in the SUNSHINE studies. Project SUNSHINE includes worjdwide sampling
and monitoring activities and research projects on fallout problemsand radigtion effects.
Some of these studies are madeat test sites; many others, in universities
laboratories
‘throughout the country, are remote from any weapons testing activity. Studies
of the occur- ©
rence and behavior of strontium 90 form an important part of Project SUNS
The AEC sponsors considerable research on the biological hazards of rfdiation that is not
part of Project SUNSHINE but that nevertheless provides helpful data for th fallout studies.
Tabie 1 summarizesthe actual and estimated expenditures for Project SUN
‘and these’
related research projects for fiscal years 1957 and 1958, as compared with
godin anabs “SigLadeen eho ng reat a
Table 1—Expenditures for Studies and Research Projects on Fallo
fhe estimate of
Problems
and Related Research on the Biological Hazards of Radiatign
Project SUNSHINE
Sampling and analysis —
Research on the biological ©
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hazards of radioactive
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Related research onthe
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:
FY 1958
_
2,275,000
3,511,000
3,940,000
$ 5,617,000 . $ 4,480,000
6,215,000
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4,424,000
.
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_
969,000
.
—
bidlogical hazards of
Tota!
stimated
FY 1957
$ 1,193,000
Subtotal (Project SUNSHINE)
. radiation
Actual
FY 1957
;
of radioactive fallout
fallout
Estimated*
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$14,524,000
$ 14,900,000
18,353,000
$20,141,000
$19,380,000
B24, 568,000
*Taken from page 1393 of the printed hearings.
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