COLLECTION OF EARLY WATER SAMPLES FOR RADIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS AND YIELD DETERMINATION
Abstract
Project 2.1 provided essentially a support function for Operation Wigwam. Surface and thermocline-depth water samplers were air-dropped across the shot site within 21 min after shot time, and radioactively self-tripping samplers were towed through the area within 1 hr; however, the delayed entry by recovery crews and the sinking of samplers due to vortex motion in the water largely vitiated the proposed objectives of furnishing early, radioactive water samples to agencies interested in weapon-yield analysis. An attempt to mark the shot area by laying a line of floating range buoys equiped with parachute drogues across Surface Zero was unsuccessful for the same reasons. A joint aerial survey of the area (with Project 2.4), which was aimed at forecasting and documenting the early radiological and hydrodynamic situation in the water after the shot, was highly successful. An interpretation of the character of the water motion for the first 2 hr, as deduced from visual evidence, is included. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 27, 1957
- Accession Number
- AD0361921
Entities
People
- William G. Van Dorn
Organizations
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography