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Show Radiological Defense Gets Stress In AEC Test Series A radiological defense training train-ing program and extensive engineering en-gineering tests of shelters will feature the Federal Civil Defense Administration's participation in the Summer 1957 Atomic Energy Commission test series in Nevada. Ne-vada. ! Shelters to be tested range from the small family type (4 to 6 persons) to dome and dual-purpose dual-purpose structures which could serve as mass shelters. A number num-ber of designs proposed by the French and German governments will also be tested. The radiological program Is designed to provide technical data da-ta for the nation's radiological defense and to give actual field training to a large number of regional, state and local radiological radio-logical monitors. Detonation of nuclear devices during the series will enable FCDA to improve radiation monitoring mon-itoring techniques and to make further tests of monitoring Instruments In-struments even though the de-vices de-vices to be used are of compar- atively low yield. Tests of high-tfeld high-tfeld devices, which could result In radiological contamination of a large area, never are conducted conduct-ed within the continental United Unit-ed States. |