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EXPOSURES PRIOR TO 1960 L/ REPORT OF TEST NANAGER' S COMMITTEE TO ESTABLISH FALLOUT DOSES TO C O ~ I UNIT IE SNEAR THE NEVADA TEST SITE
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ary arc cis follovs: 1. Tney were m d c bzrore caref'ul wind unr.lysis could be mde t o provide bci-ier est hates of arriv d tims in css cs rherc the fallout 2. They vere mde before d&xdJ.cd arzd.yois could be mzdc of all collectcd by Pro~san37 of thc Civil Effect Test Group vas not availzblc for use in d cl in cn li w the fallout p ttc rn s at the early timG whcn these 3. The pro@ calculations did not dloil adequateI .timn for comidering est in a tec. Film badge re salt c were i n Gencml not; available in mkiiq the. - For the r,hove reasons, the preliniinaiy es tim ted doses for some commmitiec were subject t o error. with an explcuntion of the praccclures used. i n estirntiw t h e dose. list bas included asa ~3.1% of the miniutes of the met i% of the P l ~ mlng prepwed by Izr. Sw lton ' sco c rdt tee. In brief, these estates resulted prirzwily frox the a hy ses based on doserate IllonLtoriG vhich appa r in the April 1, 1958, report;. the bursts nonitorrd by Pro ~ m37, viiich included most of the bursts with relativcly heavy fallout, were prep red by taat eroup using prim ril y the monitoring chtn collected b.j that erous but dso consid cr iq niuch of the for the Diablo sad Shasta tats,the pJtdtemsnoxitored. by the Amy-spon-
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The doses coxltributcd t o commnitics by the Hardtack I1 serlek were in ell were used to px prep ttern s of thc cstimteci dose for each burst, and these pat tcm s vcre surzzd to ir dic dx the cum lat iv c dose fron the series. In the absence o cericr, the decay law W Y used. specific decay infonlztion for the nmy bursts of this source of inr ' ox zit lon oa doses tocam ? tics. Tm film bzdges for the Eost part wcro eqoseil bezorc t h e series end collcctcd i? fcv dzys al^t;tlr t h e end of the ccrics. t o morc thm half of the infinite dosc fro2 the 1hrdt::ck I1 series. Sincc the estimated dose is also roughly half of t3e infinite dose, the fib3 Vith possibly c fcv excepticas, they ticre exgosed
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film badge &ita in arriv ix at the es tiw td dose is I4.1. t o error. Also, the arrive! of the of the fallout pattern is cu3jcct
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