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RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT IN NORTH AMERICA FROM OPERATION TEAPOT (DELETED)

TEAPOT OPERATION; FALLOUT; FALLOUT TRAJECTORIES; WASHOUT; MAPS; PHOTOGRAPHS; AEROSOL MONITORING; FALLOUT TRAYS; MONITORING STATIONS; WASP EVENT; MOTH EVENT; TESLA EVENT; TURK EVENT; HORNET EVENT; BEE EVENT; ESS EVENT; APPLE-1 EVENT; WASP PRIME EVENT; HA EVENT; POST EVENT; MET EVENT; APPLE-2 EVENT; ZUCCHINI EVENT; DEPOSITION; FALLOUT PATTERNS; ACTIVITY LEVELS; DATA

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

REPORT

1956 Feb 28

Sanitized

0128

NV0014323

NYO4696DEL

UNITED STATES WEATHER BUREAU

1994 Aug 26

2003 Sep 18

OPERATION TEAPOT, IN THE SPRING OF 1955, CONSISTED OF 14 ATOMIC DETONA TIONS AT THE NEVADA TEST SITE. METEOROLOGICAL TRAJECTORIES WERE COMPUT ED FOR THE RESULTING RADIOACTIVE DEBRIS AND RELATED TO THE FALLOUT OBS ERVED BY THE GUMMED FILM NETWORK OF 87 STATIONS IN THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES, TWELVE STATIONS IN CANADA, AND SIX STATIONS ELSEWHERE IN NORTH AMERICA. MAPS SHOWING DAILY FALLOUT DATA FOR THE PERIOD FEBRU ARY 18 - MAY 20, 1955 ARE APPENDED. A SERIES OF SPECIAL GUMMED FILM OBSERVATIONS NEAR CHICAGO INDICATED THAT ON DRY DAYS WITH SIGNIFICANT FALLOUT, FILM EXPOSED IN VERTICAL AND INVERTED POSITIONS AVERAGED ABOU T 40 PERCENT OF THE ACTIVITY ON A REGULAR HORIZONTAL FILM. ON DAYS WIT H PRECIPITATION, THE VALUES WERE 4 PERCENT ON VERTICAL FILMS AND 1 PER CENT ON THE INVERTED FILMS. A RADIOAUTOGRAPH OF INDIVIDUAL RAINDROPS DURING A PERIOD WHEN RAINOUT WAS OCCURRING INDICATED THAT ABOUT 3 DROP S IN A HUNDRED WERE RADIOACTIVE. THE RADIOACTIVE DROPS CONTAINED BOTH PARTICULATE AND DISSOLVED RADIOACTIVITY. THIS DOCUMENT IS A DELETED VERSION. (OF NYO-4696).