Wikimedia Commons

File:Bravo fallout2.png

Original file ‎(928 × 422 pixels, file size: 23 KB, MIME type: image/png)

Captions

Captions

Path of nuclear fallout plume (contours labelled in rad) after the 15-megaton U.S. nuclear weapons test Bravo on Bikini Atoll in 1954.

Summary edit

Description
English: Path of nuclear fallout plume after U.S. nuclear weapons test Bravo (yield 15 Mt) on Bikini Atoll. It is the single worst contamination accident in U.S. nuclear history. The test was part of the Operation Castle. The Bravo event was an experimental thermonuclear device surface event. The numbers correspond with estimated total (accumulated) dose contours (rad).
Suomi: Ydinkoe Bravon (räjähdysvoima 15 Mt) radioaktiivinen laskeuma. Bravo testi on Yhdysvaltojen pahin ydinonnettomuus. Testi oli osa Operaatio Castlea. Bravo räjäytys oli kokeellinen fuusioreaktioon perustuva pintaräjäytys Bikinin atollilla. Kuvan numerot kuvaavat arvioituja kertyneen kokonaislaskeuman rajoja (rad).
Date
Source Samuel Glasstone and Phillip J. Dolan, eds., The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, 3rd. edn. (Washington, D.C.: DOD and DOE, 1977): 437. [Gamma doses are Roentgens from arrival time to 96 hours (4 days) after detonation, outside on land. Glasstone and Dolan mention that because data from the ocean was not obtained in this particular test, Bravo, the fallout contours to the north of the islands are uncertain and some other fallout patterns for the same test ascribe the high levels measured on Rongelap to a "hotspot" of the sort measured in the ocean downwind in later tests.
Author United States Department of Energy
Other versions
This graph image could be re-created using vector graphics as an SVG file. This has several advantages; see Commons:Media for cleanup for more information. If an SVG form of this image is available, please upload it and afterwards replace this template with {{vector version available|new image name}}.


It is recommended to name the SVG file “Bravo fallout2.svg”—then the template Vector version available (or Vva) does not need the new image name parameter.

Licensing edit

Public domain This image is a work of a United States Department of Energy (or predecessor organization) employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.

Please note that national laboratories operate under varying licences and some are not free. Check the site policies of any national lab before crediting it with this tag.

العربية ∙ English ∙ français ∙ 日本語 ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Nederlands ∙ русский ∙ українська ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ +/−

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current17:25, 10 December 2005Thumbnail for version as of 17:25, 10 December 2005928 × 422 (23 KB)Fastfission~commonswiki (talk | contribs)Image of nuclear fallout dispersal from the Castle Bravo nuclear test, 28 Feb 1954. ==Licensing== *Source: Samuel Glasstone and Phillip J. Dolan, eds., ''The Effects of Nuclear Weapons'', 3rd. edn. (Washington, D.C.: DOD and DOE, 1977): 437. {{PD-USG

You cannot overwrite this file.

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file:

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Bravo_fallout2.png&oldid=831865247"