Operation GREENHOUSE. Scientific Director's report of atomic weapon tests at Eniwetok, 1951. Annex 6. 7. Contamination-decontamination studies

Technical Report · Wed Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1951

OSTI ID:6434318

Werner, L B; Sinnreich, S R

This 1951 NTPR report describes experiments conducted in Operation Greenhouse at Eniwetok on certain processes and materials associated with contamination and decontamination phenomena. For this type of contaminating event, in which surfaces are contaminated by being carried by aircraft through an atomic cloud, information was obtained which will assist in development of effective protective measures and recovery measures from contaminating atomic detonations. The contaminant which was deposited on surfaces mounted on drone planes was shown to be nonuniform under various contaminating conditions, both as to distribution and composition. Data have been obtained on the relative importance of such surface characteristics as roughness, porosity, retentivity, and contact angle. The relative behavior of various chemical agents as decontaminants was determined and use of industrial cleaning methods employing chemical additives to effect decontamination was investigated.

• Research Organization: Naval Radiological Defense Lab., San Francisco, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6434318
• Report Number(s): AD-A-995259/9/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ADDITIVES
AIRCRAFT
CLEANING
CONTAMINATION
DECONTAMINATION
DISTRIBUTION
ENIWETOK
EXPLOSIONS
GREENHOUSE PROJECT
ISLANDS
MARSHALL ISLANDS
MICRONESIA
NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
OCEANIA
POROSITY
RECOVERY
SURFACE PROPERTIES
TESTING
WEAPONS