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Af SCHEDULED PREPARATION TASKS. UNLOADING OP P-43S0 CONTAINERS PROW USNS TOWLE WAS COMPLETE*' IS JULY !P5g, PRESSURE TESTING OP CONTAINERS IS IN PROGRESS. THREE CONTAINERS SLIGHTLY DAMAGED ARE BEING REPAIRED. P-S PUELINS UNITS APE BEING TESTED PRIOR TO STARTING PUMPIN3/TRANSFER OPERATION, SCHEDULED TO BEGIN 22 JULY 1963. PACKING AND PALLETIZING DRU^S OF AIRCRAFT RESIDUE IN THE IGLOOS IN ON SCHEDULE AND SHOULD PE COM PLETED BY 29 JULY. IT HAS BEEN DECIDED TO PLACE THE R-4362 CONTAINERS BETWEEN ROWS OF 25,322 GALLON TANKS PATHS'1 THAN AROUND THE PERIPHERY TO SIMPLIFY THE PUMPING OPERATION AND REDUCE THE DANGER OF SPILLAGE. 3. THE TANK FARM AREA WAS MONITORED WITH FILLER NO. I PRIOR TO DELIVERY OF THE R-43S0 CONTAINERS. NO GROUND CONTAMINATION WAS FOUND, THE INSIDE OF ONE OF THE 25,033 GALLON TANKS CONTAIN ING LIQUID WAS ALSO MONITORED WITH A T-290A TRITIUM MONITOR. NO DETECTABLE TRITIUM CONCENTRATION WAS OBSERVED. USAF RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH LABORATORY HAS ADVISED RESULTS OF AIR SAMPLE TAKEN FROM ON 25,000 GALLON TANK CONTAINING LIQUID. THE TRITIUM CONCENTRATION WAS 20 NANOCURIES PEP LITER OP 2 TIMES 13 TO
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PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED THE H1NUS 3 M1CROCURJES PEP MILLILITER* ALL EFFORTS WE HERE TO T'ETECT TRITIUM IN TAWS USING T-?S0A TPITIU* DIFFER HAVE REVEALED KIRTLAND AFB IS DUE HERE 22 JULY* IT IS UlTERSTOC-' THAT HE VJLL BRING MORE SENSITIVE INSTRUMENT FOR TRITIU* DETECTION. 4* REMAINING EQUIPMENT NECESSARY TO START PUMPING VATER INTO R-43MTANKS ARRIVED YESTERDAY AND PUMPING OPERATION IS NOV SCHEDULED TO START 22 JULY* 3. MR* OLE VALMOD-LARSEN, DANISH HEALTH PHYSICIST, IS MAKING SHORELINE SURVEYS AS PART OF ECOLOGICAL STUDY. THE FIRST YESTERDAY MADE BY LOV FLYING HELICOPTER COVERED SHORE FROM BASE SOUTH TO CAPE ATHOLL. NO B-52 DEBRIS WAS FOUND. THESE SURVEYS VILL BE CONTINUED WITH USAF PERSONNEL PARTICIPATING UNTIL ALL SHORELINE INVOLVE* HAS BEEN COVERED. DANISH SHIP ATLANTA HAS NOT ARRIVED. LATEST INFORMATION IS THAT SHE IS TILL AT EGE*ESMI*E FIVE DAYS CLEAR VATER SAILING TIME FROM THULE. SAILING TIME THROUGH ICE IS IMPOSSIBLE TO ESTIMATE. VE ARE STANDING RY C*J ANY ASSISTANCE ATLANTA MIGHT REQUEST REFERENCE"YCUF MESSAGE UNCLAS EFTO AFSSSGA 1913437 JUL 68 BUT ARE UNABLE AT THIS TIT TO tT'TTNE VMJIOE ARCHIVES PROBLEMS MIGHT ARISE. IN THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE THREE ICE^REAKEF", PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED ?
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SAILIAG TI'IE OF THULE ENGAGED IN VARIOUS MISSIONS. SOttE QUESTION EXISTS AS TO HOW MUCH ASSISTANCE COULD BE GIVEN TO THE ATLANTA SINCE SHE IS A S1ALL SKIP 32 FEET IN LENGTH GROSSING 37 TONS AND FLOES BROKEN BY ICEBREAKER WIGHT STILL PRESENT I MOUNTABLE OBSTACLE. HOWEVER, ALL ICE REPORTS WILL EE FURNISHED TO HER AND WE WILL AWAIT HER REGUEST FOR ASSISTANCE. PRACTICE IS FOR SHIPS TO AVOID AND CIRCUMVENT ICE WHEREVER POSSIBLE AND SHE MAY PE ABLE TO PICK HER WAY THROUGH WITHOUT OUTSIDE ASSISTANCE. 6. WEATHER 14 - 22 JULY HADS BEEN MOSTLY CLEAR WITH TEMPERATURE KNOTS TO LOW OF 9 KNOTS.