Document Details
Title:
OPERATION TEAPOT, NEVADA TEST SITE, FEBRUARY - MAY 1955, PROJECT 37.2, DISTRIBUTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FALL-OUT AND AIRBORNE ACTIVITY FROM 10 TO 160 MILES FROM GROUND ZERO, SPRING 1955
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Subject Terms:
TEAPOT OPERATION; FALLOUT PATTERNS; PARTICLE SIZE; AEROSOL MONITORING; MONITORING STATIONS; AIR SAMPLERS; INSTRUMENTATION OPERATING PROC; OFFSITE; RADIATION MONITORING; STICKY TRAYS; SOILS; SAMPLING; STRONTIUM; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; FALLOUT PREDICTIONS; FALLOUT TRAJECTORIES; MOTH EVENT; HORNET EVENT; TURK EVENT; TESLA EVENT; APPLE-1 EVENT; APPLE-2 EVENT; BEE EVENT; MET EVENT
Document Location:
Location - DOE/NNSA NUCLEAR TESTING ARCHIVE Address - P.O. Box 98521 City - Las Vegas State - NV Zip - 89193-8521 Phone - (702)794-5106 Fax - (702)862-4240 Email - NTA@NV.DOE.GOV
Document Type:
REPORT
Publication Date:
1958 Nov 17
Document Pages:
0124
Accession Number:
NV0001635
Document Number(s):
WT1178
Originating Research Org.:
NO DATA AVAILABLE
OpenNet Entry Date:
1994 Aug 26
OpenNet Modified Date:
2003 Sep 18
Description/Abstract:
FALL-OUT PATTERNS OF FOUR TOWER SHOTS WERE DELINEATED BY SURVEY-INSTRU MENT METHODS TO DISTANCES OF APPROXIMATELY 160 MILES FROM GROUND ZERO. SURFACE-CONTAMINATION LEVELS IN TERMS OF MICROCURIE/SQ FT AND FALL-O UT PARTICLE-SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS WERE DETERMINED BY SOIL-SAMPLE ANALYSES . AIRBORNE RADIOACTIVITY CONCENTRATIONS DETERMINED BY AIR SAMPLERS OF DIFFERENT TYPES AND SUPPORTS AGREED WITHIN A FACTOR OF 4; AEROSOL RAD IOACTIVITY MEDIAN DIAMETERS OF LESS THAN 5 MICRONS WERE DETERMINED BY CASCADE IMPACTORS. THE SOLUBILITIES OF FALL-OUT AND AIRBORNE RADIOACT IVITY IN 0.1N HCI RANGED FROM 20 TO 30 AND 65 TO 85 PER CENT, RESPECTI VELY. MORE THAN 90 PER CENT OF THE FALL-OUT FROM TWO SHOTS WAS MAGNET IC. BETA-DECAY SLOPES RANGED FROM TIME E-0.80 TO TIME E-1.59, AND FIE LD GAMMA-DECAY SLOPES RANGED FROM TIME E-1.07 TO TIME E-2.10. PRINCIP AL BETA-ENERGY PEAKS OF 0.6 AND 2.0 MEV WERE OBSERVED.