~~ JHE HERALD, Thursday, January 26, 1978, PAGE 4 Aerial search for radiation Still looking for contamination continues | ee ae en ert ee Leachate ates 4 Allan +i MacEachen, leputy prime minister has said Canada should mave been- given more advance information about the dying satellite by the Russians. Top defence. officials have said they knew in December that there were technecal problems with the satellite but that @ not learn until last week that the wob- bling satellite was nuclear-powered, . WAKE RADIOACTIVE Earlier Wednesday, a West German space institute issued a Statement saying the Soviet satellite trailed a radioactive wake 50 to 70 kilometres high and 300 to 400 iam long through the upper atmosphere, Institute for Space Observation said the fallout of fine radioactive particles from the cloud -Will start to fall to earth in a few weeks. - Danson said there have ‘been no indications of any such cloud. . As & precaution, air testing at all major Canadian defence bases has been stepped up, Haswell said Wednesday’ Another 24 air testing stations, operated by the health department coast to coast, have started continuous testing, he ‘since Joinin the search Wednesday was a third US. plane, an air force Starlifter C-141 loaded with more radiation- sensing equipment to- ana outfit an Hercules planes for low-level searches. Onl two Hercules have n in- volved in the searches and they have U.S. scientists and technicians oa board to operate U.S. ipment. ma e’re trying to get more aircraft in the aie” Haswell said. Tuesday, a special 22- person Canadian nuclear Tesponse teamn- conducted geiger counter checks in Yellowknife but “the results were zero,’’ said Capt. John Lyne. Haswell. said Wed- nesday the squad has nm moved to Fort Reliance, a small com- munity at the eastern tip of Great Slave Lake, to conduct similar ground tests, Earlier Wednesday, Defence Minister Barney Danson said two US. planes had conducted an 11-hour high-level search but had found no con- tamination levels higher than those deposited by previous nuclear tests. planes are equipped with sophisticated radiation the Canadian govern- ment does not own and the tests centered on an area about 50 kilometres east of Yellowknife. Haswell said the air- craft have now been sent to search the area bet- ween James Bay and Lake Superior. JOIN SEARCH As well, the US. . Planes—a U-2 ard a 707— are scanning the at- mosphere between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan, just north of Chicago, Haswell said, Canadian planes joined the search Wednesday at lower levels on a_ belt about 40 kilometres wide and 725 kilometres long from Great Slave Lake east toward Hudson Bay. The search area broadened as aircraft pursued an air mass that might have been con- tamined by the Soviet satellite. i The air mass is ex- pected to reach the Canadian East Coast and the U.S. on Thursday and atmospheric searches. may then be extended into that area, Haswell said. Meanwhile, external af fai rs d spokesmen were unavailable Wednesday for comment on whether the Soviet Union has diplomatic _ note protesting that Canada ad not been informed at once about the satellite's difficulties first evident in December. From Tokyo, Extemal Affairs Minister Don. Jamieson said the complaint can be taken “as a form of protest.’’ OTTAWA (CP) -— The aerial search for radiation contamination from a fallen Soviet satellite spread Wed- nesday over a broader ~ area of northern Canada and into United States territory north -— of Chicago. ql Geoff Haswell, spokesman, said the search area broadened with regular coast-to- coast air samplings by defence and healt stepped up precautionary measure. But there still was no indication of any ab- normality produced by the fiery death early Tuesday over northern Canada of the nuclear- powered Soviet Cosmos Satellite bearing 160 pounds of uranium. There was no evidence either so far of any debris . reaching the surface before burning up. But locating such debris pre- a difficult challenge in the sparsely- as a settled Yellowknife areg of the Northwest Terri- tories where the Soviet satellite, with its sky-spy capability, is believed to have exvired. Yellowknife Mayor Fred Henne has said none of the town's 6,000 residents has expressed concern to him about hazards, “We've been through this - so many times— ‘we're surrounded’ by Uranium mines—we dont pay too much attention.” But Henne 3.1 he is miffed that hi: wasn't warned by Ottawa about the falling satellite. . "I've had no contact with the military or them with me.”” Danson has said early predictions abokt the site and timing of the satellite's fall were “amazingly accurate” but it was decided that a warning to Yellowknife might create un- necessary hysteria. fallen satellite : N.W.T. (CP) — Civilian aircraft have been asked to avoid. an area nor- theast of here where mili- tary planes are searching for traces of a nuclear- powered Soviet satellite that plunged through the atmosphere Tuesday. Dick Peters, district manager .of the federal transport department, said Wednesday the no- tice to civilian pilots is in- definite in duration. “EF doubt they'll lift it until they reach some conclusion about the satellite,” he said in an interview. The Cosmos-954 satellite, carrying about 100 pounds of enriched uranium, dropped out of orbit early Tuesday and plunged into the at- mosphere over an un- populated area northeast of this territorial capital. “It’s a geographic area which is pretty hefty,” said Peters of the restricted area. It is not an area where there is usuaily much civilian air traffic below 5,000 feet. Notice was sent to all points where _ pilot riefings occur. Capt. Caesar Jordaan, information officer at the northern regional headquarters of the de- partment of national defence, estimated the satellite search area at about 5,000 square miles. The search is being conducted by Canadian Forces Hercules aircraft based at CFB > Namao, just north of Edmonton. They are carrying equipment supplied by the United States. A 44member US. nuclear response team and the special equi ment were flown to C B Namao Tuesday from U.S. air foree bases in Washington, D.C., and Nevada. . SEARCH ELECTRONIC “It’s not a visual search, it's an electronic search,” said Jordaan. Four Hercules aircraft are involved, flying back and forth from Namao, about 1,100 kilémetres to the south. “If there's anything there, I’m tol the chanees are high. that it will be found.” Jordaan = said __it’s probable the satellite urned up before reaching the ground. A 22-member Canadian Forces nuclear response team has been checking radiation levels in Yellowknefe, : artly to al- lay fears of local residents that there is a hazard to them. Readings Tuesday night showed no unusual levels. Three members of the team were scheduled to fly to Fort Reliance, northeast of here, to take readings and air samples to check for radiation. It was not known if the checks will be made in other communities. 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