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Declassified record · U.S. Department of Energy

Radium Irradiation.

Dated
Feb 23, 1953
Declassified
Jan 6, 1998
Document type
Correspondence
Length
2 pages
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Archive description

A composite tabulation of radium which was irradiated at Hanford and which ultimately came to Mound Laboratory.

Document text

Machine-read from the scan, so expect some errors. Lines that couldn’t be read are left out.

Page 1

Zollaarfng is the coraposite t;aMatioa of radium which w a s $mediated at Hanford end wMch w i l l ultimately cane to EBaand Itsabomtorg. Bte 1: The radium in each 03 tho fimt six (6) aqles was in the form of redim bromide, the seventh sample is mdim c~.baaate,the rest, tbe bromide. 2: 'Phe first seven simple mlwa are based on an ezrusmptfan of thirty (30) gmas total of radium in tihe entfre 3: llhe welgbts on emu t3 throagh 13 ere actual.1 weights in the slug after combining Wer quait3 ties of miifurn bromide a d calcining the crucible an& ware

Page 2

A l l of the above =dim samples were earned at &game and in Eoveraber, 1951. %e remafning cans of &e first, s i x a d two a f tB% resai-ning s i x cam were received fn September, 1952. aluminum jackets were obliterated by corrosion of the alnmimun 80 that i t was impossible t o identify the fndfvidusl csnsg. was shippad to the BSX the last of October, 1952, and t e a returned to bund in Januarg, 3953. %e numbers on the Can #7 was identified Qne can ($33-1) containing 4.0 gr. of radium as the oarbormte h t h e r can (%SI) containing 4.7 gr. of raam as the &mate was shipped to the Hound in Pebruaq, 1953. in December, 1952, and wss returned b Four can3 still resnin at Zanforcl end are expected at Round in