Show UTAHNATION The Salt Lake Tribune Not All of Utahs Nuclear Tests Left Mushroom Cloud H Continued from A-- l would have long since vanished from the environment As for the amounts of contamination released Jones offered some modern-da- y figures as comparison During the course of a year the average US resident is exposed to 360 millirem of radiation from the natural background (Rem is the modern term for of a rem) A rad A millirem is one s provides exposure of typical chest taken film per The standard dosage allowance for radiological workers today is 5 rem The 1951 standard was 10 Nuclear power is prevalent in everyday life and has an important role in modern medicine Nonetheless radiation talk makes people jumpy Jones said The testing here back then 1940s and 50s was all according to the safeguards and practices that were considered the appropriate ones at that age Petrie said The technical advancement has been incredible since then Things that may appear to be negative now were the correct way to do them then Utah science adviser Suzanne Winters who is reviewing the documents for Gov Mike Leavitt agrees times were different Back in the 40s and 50s they did things that were very strange she said Indeed The newly released documents show more than a few accidental releases disappearing bombs and orders that would seem almost humorous if not for the dangerous material involved For example one goal of the May test that produced the mushroom clouds was to determine if radioactive agents could be rendered airborne by foot and vehicle traffic To prove it nine men were made to march through the grid for 45 minutes accompanied by a jeep No conclusions were reached due to insufficient data Six months later nine spheres loaded with tantalum were dropped in separate airplane passes to see how well smaller munitions spread contamination shows a wide variThe history of each sphere ance of conditions the documents noted one of which never Translation: Two spheres th post Test directives called for days in which winds were less than 10 mph On nearly every test involving an bomb an Air Force 7 made passes through the radioactive cloud at various altitudes to take sam-- pies Most recorded positive contamination B Ground-leve- l sampling of particles was done via filter pump and plastic funnel samplers placed ' downwind from the burst sites in grid formations After passage of the initial cloud the filters were collected and taken to Dugway labs to obtain esti- mates of the radioactivity per filter Ground-leve- l ' radiation surveys were done by personnel in the days after detonations First in were survey crews from what was called the Health Phys-- ' ics Section They determined the general extent of contamination They were followed by workers who otook radiation readings at levels of 1 3 and 6 feet above ground and combed target areas looking for hot spots" The highest level of average radiation intensity 5 rads per hour was recorded Aug 6 1950 when a 2000 pound bomb filled with tantalum particles hit the ground and formed a crater in Target K instead of exploding in the air over another target farther south The contamination spread in an area a wide and two miles long More typical doses were intensities averaging 2 millirads or less A key point to make about the tests 40 years later r " is that the radiation is gone said Craig Jones acting director of the Utah Division of Radiation Control Tantalum the element used in nearly every exof 115 days meaning it periment has a half-lifC-4- half-mil- e e milli-rem- 10-4- 0 y was found eA5 Sunday July 24 1994 failed to detonate Another sphere Nerd's Revenge: Clinton Attends School Reunion burst but crews could not locate its contamination area Another still dropped prematurely after it was accidently released from the airplane A fifth drifted over Granite Peak and contaminated the mountain top instead of the target Except for these passages the reports are technical and dull But they are important Shepherd said to prevent mistakes from being repeated People lived in so much fear of what could happen if we didnt develop these weapons that they lost sight of what could happen in the process of developing them Now we have the luxury of looking at that We also want to set standards here so that the government knows its not above the law and not above any individuals health concerns workers Nothing had been heard from until last December when Ohio Sen John Glenn and the General Accounting Office revealed for the first time that radiation testing was done at Dugway Since then Shepherd said her office has received calls from former workers or their children who are concerned about health effects One of them was Charles Howard of South Jordan n who worked on a line crew for an at four decades company Dugway ago I am 62 years old retired and having problems with all types of skin cancer he wrote The Salt Lake Tribune in January I just found out government scientists used me and others as guinea pigs at Dugway Proving Ground between 1948 and 1952 e He and the others were required to wear a Howard which men recalls the pen regarded as just a precautionary measure in case we got into some radiation by accident It looks like we were all set up he added The doctors who have taken care of me seem to think my cancer is caused by too much sun But none of my friends who have spent many hours along with me working fishing hunting golfing have skin cancer None of them worked at Dugway THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOT SPRINGS Ark President Clinton school 30 years out said Saturday reliving high that although he played in the school band and enjoyed his friends many people probably considered him a nerd At Hot Springs High School Clinton also wa$ active in the math and Latin clubs played a part in the play Arsenic and Old Lace got good grades and met President Kennedy when he went to Washington as a delegate to Boys Nation Many of his classmates remember him popular and considerate Clinton attending the 30th reunion of the class of 1964 talked about it as he stood outside the current Hot Springs High School The building is new since his high school days but carries an inscription proclaiming it: Alma Mater of President Bill Clinton What kind of person were you like in high school? someone asked Well I wasnt a jock Clinton replied A lot cf people probably would have said I was a nerd But I liked my friends I liked music I liked the activities but I liked to study too Clinton said he hoped having the presidential entourage around did not spoil the reunion for his friends They didn't seem to mind Its wonderful Hes just Bill to us said classmate Carolyn Echols of Hot Springs We dont really think of him as president of the most powerful nation on Earth To us he's just our friend Bill He's always been that way as-fu- electrical-constructio- cylin-der-lik- 2 May Have Died After 4 Climbers Fall Causing Avalanche on Mount Hood THE ASSOCIATED PRESS An MOUNT 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