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Biology Bldg, BO2 Bids to be taken in September. Mountain Grade School 2nd North Community School Los Alamos Hospital Senior High School 6-2"-49 1-2-51 77 66 5 50 Single Family Units * Completion date revised. ** Completion dates to be revised. -I/Design percentage shown is for both Production a d Pilot Plan& . and represents decrease from the 28$ shown in July based on re-estimate of design by Wabash Area Office. -2 / Percentages shown include delivery, conditioning, a d assembling ~oostructionof facilities is 64, 11, 95$, respectively.
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The f re approved for negoNo. of projects Am Otl nt. * In addition, one project in the amount of $4,600 w a s approved f o r joint support by the p;EC and the Office of naval Research. A list of the projects covered i n the above summation i s available i n the Division of Biology and Medicine. American Red Cross t o administer atomic energy blood eeparation --research. Improved methods f o r separating and preserving blood components of interest i n atomic energy research will be eought ina program adminkItered by the American National Bed Cross under a contract with the Atomic The primary interest of the. AEC in blood fractionation studies is the development of means for separation and preservation of white blood c e l l s and platelets, which are two blood components of particular value i n combating acute radiation effects. In its initial studies under the contract, however, the ped Cross w i l l administer engineering development of new and quicker methods for obtaining and preserving plasma and red blood cells. , In connection with c i v i l defense planning there is an acute need. for development of facilities that can separate quickly large quantities of blood fractions so that stockpiles of blood copetituents w i l l be available i n the event of atomic disaster. None of the AEC funds w i l l be used t o finance central overhead or operating expenses of the Red Cr06El National Blood Program, nor does the contract provide for establishing blood banks.-c A t the request of the National Security Resources Board, the0 Atomic Energy Project at the University of Rochester i s planning t o put on a top level training course for 75 nurse13.i.n the "Nursing Aspects of Atomic Warfare." This course will last approximately 1 week and will take ace during late October or early November.
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Dr. George Hasdie attended a meeting at the.Nev Office on August 24 on the fukure of'the polonium toxicity research proBiology Branch (Research Problem) University of Tennessee ( O a k Ridge). A project has been initiated ' .iointlv with the Division of Military Application ,to determine the effectsY of exposing 1arge.animals t o external radiation using tantalum 182. Initially, burros w i l l be used as they approximate the size of men. range of exposure w i l l be from 30 roentgens t o 3-50 roentgens daily. The outdoor exposure field will be constructed 80 that it can be, deactivated to allow for the handling and observation of the animals. logical criteria as t o the effects of the radiation will. include phyaical fitness, blood chemistry and hematology, and fertility..I IJ. S. Department of Agriculture (Beltsville, .Ma.). According t o phate fertilizer e during the last3 years through the use of radioisotopes exceeds. the. Fnformation obtained during $he ,preceding 50 years. economlc -Importance of thisi8 apparent when we consider that the annual sales of phosphate fertilizers in the United States exceed 10 million tons. Idaho. survey. The radiation baclrground survey of the Idaho Reactor Testing Station site carried on during the summer i s essentially complete. tfon measurement, Banford undertook t o make radioactivity testa of the air, s o i l , water, vegetation, and animals. Idaho State College collected, prepared, and shipped samples t o Hanford, while a8 part of ita ok?l eco\- logical survey of the area it collected and preserved Borne 1.80 specimem of plmts and 68 specimens of srna ~ imal ~f o r the college. staked out about 230 plots in order t o follow any changes which might occur in vegetation. thoron concentrations i n the air,at the site are soaevhat higher than at Hanford, but that the radioactivity of the water is somewhat less than at Ilanford - &bout one-tenth of the present permissible level. Because iodine may become one of the major radioactive contaminants, particular emphasis has been l a i d on the natural occurrence of iodine. strong indicatiois of several distinct levels of iodine concentration at various locations about the site. appears t o be higher than a t Hanford. be of much value in checking on posstble contamination of the area, particularly of grazillg lands, when reactor operations begin. It has also The Hanford measurements showed that ra6on and The level of potaesium (includirg K 40) These detailed observations will Emergency tolerance levels. A preliminary study has been mdeto
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following concurrence by experts t o whom the stud7 has been submitted. Civil Defense Liaison Branch Instructor training program. The Illinois Tech course for-radiation detection monitors vas completed August ll. A total of 83 persons was trained i n five courses (Brookhaven, Oak Ridge, u(=LA, Reed College, , and Illinois Tech) which were given. Emergency radiation monitoring program. Further progreas was'made In equipping the 18 emergency ponitoring teams composed of AEC emplOgeeS or the employees of AEC contractors which now have the essential radiation detection instruments. sent maps of each city in their areas with a population in exceas Of f o r the purpose of coordinating team operational plans. In addition, the Operations 0f.ficea have been A meeting of team representatives was scheduled f o r September 22 the Seattle Test Exercise, cise which preceded it and in the Chicago exercise t o follow - NSKB proposed for the local authorities a hypothetical situation involving the detonation of two or three atomic bombs. police, highways, water, etc.) and the utilities serving t h e locality (telephone, telegraph, electric, gas, etc.) ,after an appraisal of its resource8, told how they would meet the emergency with its present equipment. -Each exercise that has been held 80 far has been well attended by governors of nearby states and mayors of neighboring cities. Atomic Weapons," jointly prepared by the AEC and the Department of Defense., was revised and reprinted during the month. A considerable amount of study went i n t o the matter of shelkers. Sketches and a statement of principles were furnished t o NSRl3 for possible inclusion in their forthcoming publication for distribu!Aon t o state The f i r s t civilian defense type inetrument which has become available under the Branch's development program has been tested at the Bureau b ' of Standards for energy dependency and by the Signal Corps at Port Monmouth, New Jersey, f o r ruggedness and temperature and humidity dependfrom both radiation energy arnd ruggedness coasideraticns. Preliminary data indicate that the instrument i s quite satisfactorg,
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been established whereby other instruments, as they be given the a Devklppment 8 Program met 4 in ~ r i n c research laboratories of the Radio Co tract.Navy representatives attendedthe meeting, and a program of interagency coordination was worked out. ceed with the development of t w o types of photomultiplier tubes, both of ' which will provide research tools for the AEC scientists, facilitating certain physical measurements which have been either very difficult o r a combination electron gun photomultiplier device f o r use in the analysis of radiation spectra. E A was given instructions t o proPreliminary investigations will also be started on A series of meetings was held between representatives of the naval Research Laboratory and the Atomic Energy Commission t o exchange information on halogen-filled Geiger counters and ontechniquee for measuring characteristics of scintillators for uae i n scintillation counters. . A proposal for the Radiation Instruments Branch's participation i n Project Greenhouse has been submitted t o Los Alamos. ject of this participation will be the field evaluation of civilian defense type instruments being developed under AEC sponsorship. A series of spectral dependency measurements has been made i n cooperation with the Bureau of Stasdarda t o obkain infomation required f o r Project Greenhouse.