Garfield County News | 1955-02-24 | Page 90 | Explorers Take to Air

Explorers Take to Air According to an announcement made by the Atomic Energy Commission, airborne radioactivity sur. veying Is being expanded by both the government and private exploration groups. So it is now quite common to ee "explorers" climbing aboard small aircraft at airports through-cut the Colorado Plateau, bent on discovering new uranium fields. Used In the; search are highly sensitive scintillation "detection equipment, radar altimeters to cor. rect radioactivity measurements for variations in altitude due to topographic change, and newly developed and established systematic surveying techniques. It has been estimated that air-Manes used for such exploration traveled more than 500,000 miles in 1954.