DATE:
TIMI::
PPG Tine
9 Jul 1656
©0606
Apache
CML
Sponsor:
8 Fur 1906
1806
OL Tt:
UCHI,
PPG - Eniwetel
11° hot
JO2° 72!
oy"
OF"
Site elevation:
HEIGHT OF BURG?:
- Flore
oN
EF
meray
OPERATION REDWING -
Sea level
Surface
TYPE OPPURST AND PLACHMENT:
ourfsce burst from barge on
water over the Mike crater
CLOUD JOP HETGHE:
66,700 ft MSL
36,C00 ft MSL
eae
CLOUD BOTTOM WHIGHT:
REMARKS
2
peer.
Only island dose rate readings are available.
These were taken by
gerjal and ground surveys made by the Radiological caflely orpanizat ion.
The 14°? decay approximation was used to extrapolute tne doce rate
readings to H+l hour.
This shot produced exceptionally heavy contamination
throughedit the upper islands of the atoll.
Water in the north end of
the lagoon was highly contaminated for a considerable distanee from the
shot island, and as the silt and debris were moved out by lagoon currents,
the contamination spread widely.
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