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Analysis of radiation exposure: service personnel on Rongerik Atoll, Operation Castle – Shot Bravo

Report · written 9 July 1987 · released 1 September 1988

Why this matters

A 1987 Defense Nuclear Agency dose reconstruction for the U.S. weather-station crew on Rongerik Atoll, which the Bravo fallout cloud reached in 1954. Analyses like this were later used to decide veterans' compensation claims. The accompanying Marshallese record is in the Brookhaven report.

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https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6841521

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The Nuclear Paper Trail

The same cloud reached U.S. weathermen on Rongerik.

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Defense Nuclear Agency. "Analysis of radiation exposure: service personnel on Rongerik Atoll, Operation Castle – Shot Bravo." 9 July 1987. Released 1 September 1988. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6841521 (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0030).

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  1. 1997 QA-0029
    BNL · Report

    Historical events associated with fallout from Bravo Shot – Operation Castle, and 25 years of medical findings

    Brookhaven National Laboratory's account of the March 1954 Castle Bravo test, whose yield far exceeded predictions and rained fallout on the inhabited atolls of Rongelap and Utirik.

    Written 1 Jul 1997 Released 1 Jul 1997 Never classified United States Live