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This document contains restricted data as defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1946. Its transmittal or the disclosure of its contents in any manner to a n unauthorized per son is prohibited. By authority of .the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission QUARTERLY PROGRESS REPORT REPORT TO THE
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A xajor part of the Sixth Sexh.nnml Report t o Congress is devote6 tothe biology &.d medicine progrw-, and no effort will be rad6 here t o summarize-or duplicate the infornation contained i n that statercent. %e present quarterly report will be confined to a few items of significance occurring during the quarter which were not covered in the Sixth Semiannm.1 Report. The two reports therefore should be considered i n conjmction. Direction of Research Effort ' During the quarter approval was given t o 42 reseerch projects submitted by educational ard research institutions, compared vrith 26 in LIe pre cedi q period. according to the new procedure, outlhied inthe preceding report, whereby contracts for projects approved by the Washington office are negotiated and administratively scpemised by the dLGC 0pera';ic;ns Office nearest the institut i cn cor-cerned, rather than being ah finist ered by the Office of &val Research. Contracts for these will be negotiated Gio1oi;y and Kedicine Research Projects Subject Nmber Cost In these loc tion of research projects to receive Ar7C support The Conrmittee held its ' t h eCommission fora year end ahalf has had the advice and assistance Advisory Committee on Biology and Eiedicine. fifteenth and sixteenth meetings during the quarter. ing the Cod tte e proposed that the ACC participate with the lb t ional Research Council i n continuing the work of t h e --ad hoc group previously established to examine the cases of several physicists who had developed cataracts from radiation in jur jr follovrin;; work with cyclotrons (not a t contract with the ITational Rcsearch Council providing -:30,000 of assistmce. (End of UNCISSSIFIZD section.) For this project the Connission has conplcted a
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iiesurvey of Bikini and Eniwetok. Last s m e r ' s resurvey of E ik in i and Eniwetok by the University of Rashington Applied I"4 is he ries Laboratory was briefly described inthe quarterly report for Julycentration of radioactivity at one island of Bikini Atoll, apparently the result of biological action caused by Tlants and anj - 1 ~ ~ 1 ~t aking up radioactive parti clos when gathering food. coocentretion of radioactivity vs ill be one of the subjects t o be examined again this summer when the Applied Fisheries Laboratory re investigates the rerrainini radioactivity found in local fauna and flora at Bikini ar,d Eniwe-tolc. The University expedition will be financed by the Commission, with fon?iard area support being furnished by the Navy. A n item of importance mentioned there was the conThis apparent biological Planning for future weapon tests., The First meeting of the ad -hoc connittee for plarrning the biologic aspects o f future tests was?;eld June 7-9, 1949. The menbership of t h e committee i s as follows: Dr, Jacob Furth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Col. James P. Cooney, AZC Captain R. E. Draeger, Naval Hedical Center Dr. Leon 0. Jacobson, Argom-e National Lqboretory Forty test pro2ects were considered by the committee atits June ! raeetiiig and 21 of these 7;ere accepted. relate to early establish ent of an animal colony t o provide acclimated test subjects, study o f rsdiatioc-, thermnl- and. blast-injury, and the genetical effects of m di ation. 1.) Scme of the proposed projects On Eay 18 the AZC spocsored a series of orientation lectures for sone 300 executives of the casualty insurmulce conpanies t o assist i n evalwtini; insurw-ce pro'olems peculiar to a tonic energy projects. The meetiag, held i n :Jew York City, consisted of four lectures covering an introduction t o atomic energy, the isotopes distribution proptun,. per- ' missible limits of exposure t o ionizing radiation, and the laboratory Construction of Facilities Construction has been started on a $193,000 project to provide' greenhouse and laboratory facilities necessary to agricultural research
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performed by the Department of Agriculture i n conjunction With t h e AEC atthe Plant Industry Station, Belts ville, Ykryland. The Rochester Training Building, being constructed atthe University of Rochester, advw-ced t o 30 percent of completion atthe end of The Argonne Cancer Research Hospital is being designed for construction at the University of Chicago; bids on the construction contract are expected t o be received i n August 1949. (End of UNCLASSIFIED section.)
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Table 1. - Sammry of Ex?enditure d July 1, 1S48, tlwough June .33, 1949 Admini strat ion Plant and Equipment
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According t o Programs and Scbpograms July 1, 1948, through June 30, 1949 Source and Fissionable liateri?.ls Research and Development 3 06 Plant and Equipment 13.6 Research and Development 3 2 Plant and Zquipment 3 b 1 Research and Development .1 Research and Development Research and Development Biology and lledicine Plant and Equipment Cperations and Kaintenance Plant and Equipment Administ rat ion Total All Programs Ziarch June July 1946Cash disbursements by MC.