It was drenched with fallout contaminated seawater, most of which has likely long since washed away.
There were a lot of these kinds of tests, particularly with testing of the new H-Bombs. My dad got sent over there for some time, we never really heard about what he did, but in his gear when he came back were a bunch of these on chains he wore while there:
http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/radiac/DT60.htm
You can see in some movie accounts where the ships were boarded and inspected immediately afterwards. In one movie, scientists that were there with radiometers saw the extent and boogied out.
Years later he developed a lot of medical problems and had to be medically retired. My mom fought for years with the VA over causes. It got to the point they said “Prove he was there.” He didn’t save copies of the orders and he wasn’t on a set of orders that would be catalogued by his name only.
After years researching and snail mail correspondence with other veterans, relatives, etc. she go a set of orders where his name appeared along with a few dozen others.
Eniwetok I remember him saying, but that’s pretty much all he did say. He ended up on 100% service-connected disability and died about 20 years after he was there.
Um, no.
It was less than 6 football fields away from the Baker shot. Sadly there were guys tasked with wet sandblasting the wreck for years to remove the radiation with no success as part of Navy decontamination studies.
Not only was it sunk because they could not decontaminate it, it was filled with nuclear waste before it as sunk after undergoing aerial bombardment.
To reiterate, they sunk a nuclear waste filled ship that they could not decontaminate by bombing it. Just as they shot nuclear waste-filled barrels that would not sink after dumping them.
Absolutely brilliant. ‘Washed away’? I don’t think so. But it’s Ok, ‘cause it’ll ‘dilute’, right? /s
http://www.navy.mil/ah_online/archpdf/ah195007.pdf