THE BRITISH CRUISER ARETHUSA was anchored near the Nab Tower, Spithead, off the Isle of Wight on May lin preparation for atomic ray experiments. The vessel, with no living thing aboard, will-be subjected to bombardments of gamma rays, which follow atomic bomb explosions, but which can be produced as a by-product of an atomic pile. The Arethusa will have no special protection, since the tests are designed to find out how an ordinary warship, with no lead, asbestos or concrete, will stand up to gamma radiation. The photograph shows the pontoon and pylons from which the Arethusa, moored in the foreground, will be bombarded.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 May 1949, Page 5
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104THE BRITISH CRUISER ARETHUSA was anchored near the Nab Tower, Spithead, off the Isle of Wight on May lin preparation for atomic ray experiments. The vessel, with no living thing aboard, will-be subjected to bombardments of gamma rays, which follow atomic bomb explosions, but which can be produced as a by-product of an atomic pile. The Arethusa will have no special protection, since the tests are designed to find out how an ordinary warship, with no lead, asbestos or concrete, will stand up to gamma radiation. The photograph shows the pontoon and pylons from which the Arethusa, moored in the foreground, will be bombarded. Greymouth Evening Star, 23 May 1949, Page 5
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