Document Details
Title:
FIELD OPERATION 2 PROJECT 6.2 CONTAMINATION - DECONTAMINATION PHENOMENOLOGY
Author(s):
WERNER, L B [UNITED STATES NAVAL RADIOLOGICAL DEFENSE LABORATORY]
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:
1952 Mar 17
Declassification Status:
Declassified
Document Pages:
0119
Accession Number:
NV0108946
Originating Research Org.:
UNITED STATES NAVAL RADIOLOGICAL DEFENSE LABORATOR
OpenNet Entry Date:
1994 Aug 27
OpenNet Modified Date:
2003 Sep 18
Description/Abstract:
A NUMBER OF CONTAMINATION EFFECTS RESULTING FROM SURFACE AND UNDERGROU ND DETONATIONS OF ATOMIC WEAPONS HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATED AT OPERATION J ANGLE. IN ADDITION, EXPERIMENTS CONCERNED WITH DECONTAMINATION PROCESS ES WERE CONDUCTED. INFORMATION HAS BEEN OBTAINED WHICH WILL ASSIST IN DEVELOPMENT OF EFFICIENT PROTECTIVE MEASURES AND RECOVERY PROCEDURES F ROM CONTAMINATING ATOMIC DETONATIONS. STUDIES OF THE RADIOLOGICAL BEHA VIOR OF MATERIALS WERE CARRIED OUT, AND INCLUDED INVESTIGATIONS OF SUR FACE ROUGHNESS AND SURFACE HARDNESS. THE INFLUENCE OF INDUSTRIAL FILM ON SURFACE CONTAMINATION AND DECONTAMINATION WAS DETERMINED. THE DECON TAMINATING ABILITIES OF A NUMBER OF CHEMICAL AGENTS WERE EXAMINED. IT WAS ESTABLISHED THAT THE STRUCTURAL ORIENTATION OF A SURFACE AT THE TI ME OF A SOLID PARTICULATE CONTAMINATING EVENT, INFLUENCES THE QUANTITY AND POSSIBLY THE PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF DEPOSITED CONTAMINANT.