On Site Rad-Safe Support, Shot Franklin, Operation Plumbbob (Includes Supporting Documents)

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Radiplogical Safety Division j The contents of this folder are original documents. If you wish copies, please return the entire folder to a file clerk who will copy the specific items for you.

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PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED RAD-SAFE SUPPORT ACTIVITIES FOR FRANKLIN FRANKLIN v?a3 a device designed by Los Alarms Scientific laboratory and fired frca a 300 foot tov;-3r at 0^55 hours on June 2f 1957. in Area 3 of Yucca Flato R-hour vras announced at 0715& 20 The usual nrushrooai chape was approxiirated only brieflyr as the steoi quickly settled back on tha Test Sitee The top of the mushroom cloud rose to less than 20,000 feet, and moved west of due north at a very low speed (approximately 330 degrees at 7 to 10 knots)0 Tho fireball did not reach the ground and it was estimated that there was little debris in the General lionitoring Branch 1„ Konitoring participation by this branch involved: air-borno initial radio logical surveys and vehicle-borne initial radiological surveys of shot and non=shot areas; establishment and ooeration of check stations and uss of roving monitors to control access into contaminated areas; re-aurveys of contaminated areas; supplying party monitors for damage survey and recovery parties; marking contaminated areas vdth warning signs; and support of gen eral Rad-Safe activities as neededo 2, The air-borne initial survey team was delayed by dust in the shot area; in stead of departing at the scheduled tins (h/15 minutes), the flight left at hours (0637) at an altitude of 2? feet over ground zero, 3, The vehicle-home team for initial survey of the shot area (11 monitors) left the S-3 security station at H/lp minutes (0510),. The team encountered ’was halted and one monitor nroccedcd until 250 mr/hr was Encountered at N 334c000, S 679,500 at 0520, Rad-Safe Control was notified by radio and the survey was delayed until H/30 minutes (0525)» At H/25 minutes (0520) one monitor orocesded to main.access roads to Areas 1 and 3 and encountered no significant raciaticn.. At 0550 10 mr/hr was encountered at Grid Coordin 4, The vehicle-borne team for initial sur’/oy of areas other than shot areas (1 senior monitor and 3 monitors) started from the £-3 security station at H/l5 minutes (OplO) and encountered radiation intensities of 400 ror/hr in Area 2, 300 mr/hr in Area 4, and 14 mr/hr at ground zero in Area 9= junction for the uurpose of controlling entries into the contaminated area. It was operated continuously by two-roan crows until 2400 hours on D/l. Thor after the station operated as required by area activities through June 4, 19 60 Ee—surveys were made as scheduled. The mid-time on the H/6 hour resurvey could not be determined because this resurvay was started before completion of the initial survey, and there was some overlapping of data. Other resurBEST COPY AVAILABLE PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED BEST AVAILABLE COPY

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PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED BEST AVAILABLE COPY monitors ■..ere furnished as follows a. Four for Project 39-5 (Hr5 nanutes) Plotting and Briefing participation involved operaticn of the Rad-Safe ccnmnications net, plotting of survey data, briefing of parties desiring to en ter contaminated areas^ and issuing of ai'ea access permits. Plotting section plotted data for the on-site contamination surveys3 involving 14 original overlays and 23 duplicates for display in various locations on the 3. fee plotter was furnished to the Atonic feergy Ccmdssion Test Manager's RadSafe Advisor to plot el cud-tracking data for the Civil Asi-cnautics Adminis 4. A secondary plotting facility was operated in Building CP i’ll on June 2, 1957. 5. Briefings v:ere conducted, and area access permits were issued to each party as a. 2 June - 52 scheduled parties from 24 projects (377 persons) b. 3 June - 113 parties (235 persons) c. 4 June - 105 parties (421 persons) 1. Be contamination participation involved operation of a personnel decontamina tion. station at the Rad-Safe Building and vehicle and equipment dscontaminaticn stations at feea 13 and CP ?6. 2. Personnel dscontcrdmtion v:as performed with normal soap and water teclmi3. At the C? i-S decontamination station 94 vehicles wers decontaminated0 A contaminated generator was removed frem Area 11 and released to the !>cccnTon S'tamlex /ir Samplers wars calibrated for air flow rate. PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED BEST AVAILABLE COPY

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PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED BEST AVAILABLE COPY Q 9® The courting laboratory prcoessed the folic-,.dug samples: 1. Hcarly Health and Safety lectures vrere given each day at the Security Build ing to new Bervada Test Site personnel. 2. A Red-Safe re-orientation lecture and tour was given to three previously trained Department of Defense monitors at the P^ad-Safe Building. 3. All [Library material on hand was propermarked and catalogued. 1. The ilorth Run nonitcring team arrived at the ^rsa 13 Decontamination Station at 0930 hours and checked for fallout radiation in the innediate vicinity. Radiation levels were baclcground. 2. a total cf forty-eight nose swipes were collected. Results indicated no in 3. A Reynolds Electrical 1 Engineering Co., Inc. labor crew consisting of twenty-two men continued work on the fence to enclose the contaminated ax*sa. 4. Program 72 personnel continued their work involving care and removal of 5= Program 72 personnel obtained nine soil samples, six from Area 3 end three 1. logistic support provided to Nevada Test Site personnel during the interval D-l Franklin to D-l Lassen is listed as follows: A. Protective clotLiing, materials and supplies were issued to So2 people. 1. The following protective clotliing and devices -were issued: 2,, The laiundry processed 5665 pieces of clothing. 3o The stock and issue facilities at the Rad—Safe Building remained open on a tv.enty-four hour basis. < PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED BEST AVAILABLE COPY

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2. Support v-'us continued for Project 57 in Area 13. 1. The following services were provided by tins branch: PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED Date Issued Received foUcruing personnel received over 2 roentgen gama radiation Kane Organisation Dosage PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED BEST AVAILABLE COPY

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D—1 0600 Ins-trunent Maintenance Section opens Tor shot operations. 0/00 Logistics Iranch supply r-oon opens for shot operations (Protective and. Briefing, aid Deccn. 1510* Plotting and Briefing Branch furnishes helicopter crev; v.ith ti:o Area 3 Lad-Safe naps on viiich have been plotted air survey points. 1515* Helicopter crev;s and General Monitoring Branch- assisted ty Plotting and Briefing Branch as required, establish tentative a5jr suivey i-oute „ 1530 K Hour for "Dress Rehearsal11 for helicopter crexs and General Monitoring 1600 Emergency team ’b&caacs operational. D H*»2 1/2 General. Monitoring, Plotting end Briefing, and Dec on personnel leave 1-2 Monitoring nsrsonnel resort fer duty at Bad-Bp-re Building. di-ess, check eperatien of radiac instruE^nts, radios, veliicles- etc. Plotting and Brisling facilities open for business. 1-1 Security Gate 120 closes: no further traffic permitted until after H lour. Branch Lsadez', General Monitoring Branch, briefs monitors and Plotting and Briefing Branch issues Area 3 maps and ?iald Survey Report Radio silence begins- Vehicle-bome monitors for initial survey of shot area leave Rad-Safe Building, form convoy. Airborne nonitors and Shot area initial survey monitor convoy moves to S-3 Road Block on Mero.-ary lighvay; Rad-Sate personnel in nonitcr convoy clear passes and croa access per lit a ilth Load Block parscnr.el vjhile ai:a5.ting 1 Hour.

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All personnel not ivearing dark goggles face away frcn shot area0 aiid standby airborne noritor renain on standby status, Vehicle-borne Vehicle-tome survey begins. Vehicle-tome monitors for areas other than shot area leave Rad-Safe Build?ng, form convoy, and orocc-sd to S-3 Read Block, where thov op.ear passes end area access pannits<, Airborne survey ends. Vehicle—borne survey ends in shot area,, vehiclebo me taornnor teams for are as omen than snot area pass tnrough S-3 Decontamination Stations open. Chock station personnel and trailers for Area 7 d-cpr.rt Rad-Safe Building, form corr/oy, and proceed to S-3 Bead Block, viiere tiiay clear passes and area access permits. H/2 monitor group Team. 2 from shot area returns to Rad—Safe Piildina* Check station personnel and trailers for Area 7 pass tlm-cugh 5-3 Biiilding: (Branch Loader releases mnitors vinen situation permitsc) JO CO 1 v'uvr eat Maintsnvnco Soctior: closes unless test operatic ns resuiro 0; O Check Statins and Blotting and Sri&fing facilities dose unless test ocoraif-ons rocuire lucor hcvuv

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■200 Decontamination Stations and Logistics Branch supply room close unless test ocerations recnire later hour® Check Stations and Plotting and Bidefing facilities reopen, logistics Branch Laundry stops operation. I and Briefing facilities close unless test operatiens require inter nour. Loposoics prai'i-cn >t aims ore ration check Stations close unless test operations require later hour. ~J.2 All Branches operate on normal hours unless

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PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED RSSCO Rad-Safe Recovery Plan ifevada Test Organisation Office of the Test Director For shot F.d'dIKLIN, Reynolds Electrical & Engineering Co., Inc., Rad-Safe recovery plan is as indicated belovj 1. Airborne radiological survey a. At H plus 15 ninutes on D day, unless tine is designated otherwise by the Test Director, one helicopter carrying crew and one Rad-Safe nonitor will take off from C.P. helicopter pad to conduct survey at 25 feet altitude of those test stations approved by the Test Director; heli copter will then make a sweek over other test areas to determine general radiological status and will return to REECO Rad-Safe nonitors and vehicles will be assembled just south of the Test Director’s road block on Mercury Highway, with vehicles in the following order fron north to south: (1) Vehicle 1 - Senior ’’cnitor, Team 1 (2) Vehicle 2 - Monitor Team A, Team 1 (3) Vehicle 3 - Monitor Team R, Team 1 PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED BEST AVAILABLE COPY

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PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED BEST AVAILABLE COPY (5) Vehicle 5 - Monitor Team B, Team 2 (6) Vehicle 6 - North Pun monitor team (7) Vehicle 7 Security personnel. Station LtOO (8) Vehicle 8 - Security personnel. Station 385 (9) Vehicle 9 - Senior monitor. Team 2; with check (10) Vehicle 10- Branch Leader, General Monitoring Branch; with check station generator b. At E plus 13 minutes, unless time is designated otherwise ty the Test Director, the above vehicles will proceed northward through the road block. c. Vehicles will proceed and survey Area 3 according to same pro cedures as indicated in RSECO Bad-Safe Operational Plan - Shot BOLTZMANN, dated May 13, 1957, NTS-1262-H. 5'5V'*v''" e. At (^9^ minutes, unless time is designated otherwise by the personnel will pass through the Test Director's read block on Jbrcury Highway, for the purpose of monitoring Areas 7,-f 9, 1, U and 2 to insure that these areas are radiologioally safe for construction parties. Personnel involved will be: PRIVACY ACT MATER BEST AVAILABLE COPY

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All Concerned F. 2, Rosell Support of Project Franklin Biomedical Project 4.1 on shot Franklin -Kill require following support (numbers are approximate): Protective clothing for sixty (60) personnel Decontamination of thirty (30) vehicles

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PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED BEST AVAILABLE COPY PRIVACY AC I YED Teass in vehicle 1 will survey Areas 1, U and 2, than return to the Rad-Safe Ruildinj* Teana jin vehicles 2 and 3 will survey Areas 9 and 7- Upon ccnpletion of survey in Area 7# vehicle 2 will establish a temporary Rad-Safe chec^f station for Area 7f if required^ vehicle 3 will return to Rad-Safe Rutiding and will pick up the Area 7 Had-Safe check station trailer, and will return to Area 7. If Araa 7 check station is not required, vehicles 2 and 3 will return to the Rad3. It is requested that* h, T!ie personnel listed in Paragraph 2 be cleared for passage C. The helicopter flight indicated in Paragraph 1 be coordinated 9 ; with otlisr air operations. d. The vehicle operations indicated in Paragraph 2 be coordinated with other early entry operations, e. Appropriate road space south of the Test Director’s road block on Re rcury Highway be reserved for the vehicles listed in. paragraph 2 d from H minus 3'D minutes until the vehicles are cleared through the road block, T< Tery truly yours, HSTHOIDS FIZCTRICAL & EiniHPEHDiG GO., INC. Special Assignments Branch (1) Piottinr Ll Briefing French (1)

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BEST COPY AVAILABLE wev eud esie hii-^de ^aiiitar dil teix off froa C.-p* COptCT viii tLea & svfrep ovor etber test erefes to determine rtsdlcloglcsi ottUis feud will return to :'u-Ct isoritors sad vedclea will ho Just tdv.‘s TsMcles in ttic fc.llowir«3 order froa north to souths

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PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED BEST AVAILABLE COPY 9, 1, 4 end 2 to insure that theoe cr-crs arc r&nicle^icfill/ BEST AVAILABLE COPY

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PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED BEST AVAILABLE COPY U. Atonic Fnergy Corssiesloa Tbac in vehicle X will sjrvsy Arena 1, L ard ?, tbna return to tbo Rsd-uaTs rtrilrfin™. Tams la Vehicles 2 and 3 viH etrvny Areas 9 and ?• Upon ccafsletioa of survey in Area h a tenporsay ad-, sfo chscdc rtataon 'r_^vehicle 2 will establish for Area 7, if require-d{ vchicio 3 vill return to trailer, and vill return to 'rsa 7. If Area 7 check ctation is not re^uirRu, vehicles 2 end 3 vill retxim to tha V.vd- «. 3« It is reqprsted The ahovre plan he approved. The perro:mel listed in Paragraph 2 be cleared for passage The helicopter flight indiest^d in "cra reph 1 be cocrdinatcd with other air operations. TJiC vehicle operations indicated in Taraj-raph 2 bo ccc rdinstei with other early entry operations* Appropriate road space south cf the Test fIroctorr2 road block on Jfercury Ri-kva? bo reoervod for t!* vehicles listed in ^ms-rreph 2 d frees R nlnus 30 rdnutcj until the vehicles ara cleared through the road block. Very truly yours. original signed by btsi COPY AVAILABLE Plot ting A Trio fins Trarah {!)<$- BEST AVAILABLE COPY

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SUBJECT: Plotting & Briefing Branch FR.4I\iKLIN Shot Report: On 1 June 1957* The plotting & Briefing Branch started planning and training for Shot FRANKLIN. The device was detonated at OU55'nrs. 2 jure 1957* in Area 3. The survey parties, after briefing, were dispatched from the S-3 Check point at 0510hrs. to begin the initial survey of -Area 3* The survey team made contact with the IQnr/hr line at 0543hrs. and completed the survey at 0oA5hrs. R-hour was declared at 0950hrs. The helicopter survey team made a pre-deternined run over Area 3 at 25ft. and made contact with the 15Qmr/hr line at 06l2hrs. last contact over Area 3 was made at Oo37hrs. On 2 June 1957* 52 parties, consisting of 377 persons from 24 projects, were briefed on the radiological situation, and were dispatched in accordance with the Test Directors schedule of events. . Resurveys of the contaminated area were conducted at 0500hrs. on 3 June 1957* and at 1300hrs. on 4 June 1957The Following parties were briefed for …