OPFRAVION REDWING
DATE:
TIMS:
PPG Time
14 June 1956
1126
Kickapoo
GMP
13 June 1956
2326
Sponsor:
SITE:
UCRL
PPG - Eniwetck - Sally
“47?
162°
3H'
19'
Site elevation:
HEIGHT OF BURST:
38"
11"
ON
£E
Sea Level
300 ft
TYPE OF BURST AND PLACEMENT:
Tower burst over coral scil
CLOUD TOPHEIGHT:
CLOUD BOTTOM HEIGHT:
16,000 ft MSL
11,000 ft MSL
REMARKS:
Only island dose-rate readings are available.
These were
obtained from aerial and ground surveys made by the Radiological Safety
Organization.
The zRe? decay approximation was used to extrapolate the
dose-rate rradings to H+l hour.
on Sally, the shot island.
Heavy contamination was enccuntered only
Significant alpha (plutonium) contaminution
was also found on the shot island.
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