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. PLUTONIUM INJECTION EXPERIMENTS UPDATE DOE has located and' made avallable slgnlflcant records concerning the plutonf um injection experiments described by the Secretary dur lng her December 1993 press conference. Our search continues and we will release any additlonal records that we find, DOE has also taken various other steps t o address the is ues raised by these experiments. a To date, we have released about 5,000 documents relating t o the experiments and the 18 human subjects Involved, These documents are the results of the searches a t Argonne, Los Alamos, Oak Rfdge, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. These documents have been placed on optical disks and are available through the Coordlnhtion and Information Center In las Vegas, Nevada, a s well as DOE public readfng rooms. In addition to the 18 plutonium subjects, another subject who received an Injection of amerlciurn durlng the same time period has also been ldentlfied. This injection took place i n the Berkeley area and the subject, known by the code CAL-4, was an Asian American teenager. Documents pertaining to th ls subject have at so been released. 6 The first injection took place i n Oak Ridge, The subject, known by t h e code HP-12, was an African American i n his fifties who had been I n a traffic accident. The date of the injectSon was Aprfl loth, 1945, a few weeks after the lans for the experiments had been final l zed, Bone and later teeth samp!es from this subject were analyzed a t Los Alamos. 0 One subject, injected f n Chicago and known by t h e code CHI-3, remains unidentified. The Department i s cofltlnuing its efforts to try and We have contacted the known famllies ofall the subjects and Secretary O'Leary has s oken with family members t o express her.concern and outline her p Pan t o address the matter. Contact: Mary Ann Freeman
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e Hf storl ans and other researchers w i 11 have unparall eled access to the documentary history o f the U.S. nuclear program. Facts relating t o speciffc experfments as we71 as the institutional context in which they occurred will be made available to t h e public Our results in 'this effort will serve as a model for the identification and release o f other important and approprfate categorfes o f information 0 Subjects o f Human Radiation Experfmentation and their familfes. This information will provide critfcal facts about the experiments and why they took place. human radlation experimentatlon was conducted in accordance with applicable regulations and guidelines. Hi stori ans and Other Researchers, This effort wi 1 1 enhance the ab1 1 ity o f researchers t o analyze scfentific, medical, historical, and administrative aspects o f human radiation experimentation and related 0 Government Officials, T h l s effort wlll aid determinatfons about whether