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Department of Energy: Declassified Nuclear Records
The Department of Energy runs the country’s nuclear weapons labs and has declassified hundreds of thousands of their records: test reports, fallout surveys, lab memos and letters going back to the Manhattan Project. Browse them by topic, read a plain-English summary, then open the original scan.
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Jun 1, 1945LA Notebook, J-3 (April 12, 1945 to June 1945)A handwritten Los Alamos notebook, April 12 to June 1945, logging alpha radiation counts on prepared samples, with analysts recorded only by code.Dec 31, 1946Manhattan District History, Book IV: Pile Project, X-10, Volume 6 - OperationVolume 6 of the Manhattan District History covering plutonium plant operations at the Hanford Engineer Works from January 1944 through December 1946.Dec 31, 1948Report on Health, Safety and Biomedical Research at Los AlamosA 1948 report by T. L. Shipman on how wartime Los Alamos, built around one weapon goal, started with no biomedical research program.Mar 1, 1949Manhattan District History, Book VIII, Los Alamos Project (Y), Chapter 7: Boron (B10)A 1949 administrative history of how the Los Alamos project ordered, developed and produced crystalline boron and boron enriched in B10.Sep 20, 1950Distribution and Excretion of Plutonium Administered Intravenously to ManA September 20, 1950 joint Los Alamos and University of Rochester report on twelve hospital patients injected with plutonium to track where it settled in the body.Sep 20, 1950Distribution and Excretion of Plutonium Administered Intravenously to ManA 1950 report on twelve hospital patients injected with plutonium, with the doses given, where it lodged in the body and how slowly it left.Sep 24, 1973Source Book on Plutonium and Its Decontamination (DNA 3272T)A 1973 Defense Nuclear Agency report gathering what U.S. agencies then knew about plutonium contamination, how it moves through the body, and how to clean it up.Jun 1, 1995Human Radiation Studies: Oral History of Radiologist Earl R. Miller, M.D.A 1994 interview where a University of California radiologist describes his Manhattan Engineer District radiation safety job and his early iodine-131 work.Jun 1, 1995Oral History of Health Physicist Karl Z. Morgan, Ph.D.Transcript of a January 7, 1995 interview with the man who ran health physics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for most of three decades.
Records come from OpenNet, the U.S. Department of Energy’s public archive of declassified documents. Works of the U.S. government are in the public domain.