H-Division Progress Report 20 November - 20 December 1948 (Redacted)

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lo ry and Medicine. Wcnbcrr o f the AEC Advirory ? omit tee for 5:ology and Llediclno notat Lor Alma8 December 9, 10, and boratory and tha Lor Alrmoe Horp:tal. bkabars o f the commi'ttae are Alan Grege, Chairman, Ernest foodparture, Monteoatry. ?n attendance froa t h e Laboratarp were T. L. Whilr a t Loa Alrrnos, the meinbrrr o f the cornurd Bay0 CmTm. The morning o f the recond day of their tlonod membrra o f the Laboratory staff,with general conrldrcatlon belnc given to the prorent and future progran of the 9osp:tal and the Eealth Df virion.

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On Dc cm ber 11, 1946, we wera adoired b y tha Argonno National Laboretory of the death o f Armando Rodri8u.r. ?hi8 arn firmt case to the attention of the Haaltb Div lr lon rl leh t ly over ay err ago and tha diagnorlr rhich was established et the the was that he 1.5 surgues fol la red a dom hl ll course. A t the tirnc43f his death urd others connected. with the Argonno National La bom to rp. Cmp lrt c reports frm the posts art c sex mix tion have not yet boon re col vs d but the in for rattan which is nor available tends t:, cmfirm the previously estr bl ir he d 3. Visit toSu dia Laborrtorp: v lr ltr d tho Sandia Lab ma tory. Other referencer t o th l rv lr lt rill be found In the section of this report do vo tcd to the rct iv it ter of Group 8-2. From a general pint of view,the ol?vLous and gla rl ne difficulty at tho fled ta take gene r rl charge ofthe health urd raf o ty program. tory,there Is no physician - el the rr ull time or part tire.

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TUB tactor art bo r@e.rdob r8 a roriour fault, a d @vary ot fort rhould bo made t o obtairr tho aorrio@# Of oo spot mt biolvgical ~ o ioa oo ar on orl j hourod in tho BOr)l+rL .&fm bcaq urd tho Toch Llbrw. bora rp pro xl art ol ~3900 v ohm or, rad wlll bo mated t o prorldo an adaquato bloLo~loa1rorourh library to somo the Laboratory and tho Horpitrl. Occuprtlonrl FIarlth ';roup R-2, rarigaed h r porltlon a t t o tho r@8 Alamoa S air nt if lc Laboratom In mattom of Ocouprtianrl 2ygiono. She has boon a t Lor A luo s sua0

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Group 8-2 roflocta tho lntorort urd onorgy rho hrr put a t the Laboratory on Mrrcb 1, 1949. ttntil t h o arrlvrf tho roroirch group, har boon arkad t o a8rumo tho rorponDiv l rion lr Dr. Clrrrnco C . Lurhbrugh, who Is oxpected t o tho nood of full tho pathologirt m d Dr. LushbauGh Both groupr have long felt soomr to bo ideally qualirlod forth i op or it lon, Nov, 29 Wrrgarot Nolaon boo. 1 Loulae Yuonnlng Doc. 3 Dorir Barriaon Doo. 7 John J. Clifford btor. 22 Juanita ~ on kofi Rot. 86 Lloyd 2. Roth Dec. 7 Rachol Norbury

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rovio r of PU mrtabollJm ll ter at uro. .. on rata; f i v o days with Kr. Linton repairing alpha lnrtru-.- mnt8 ; made up partial list of oqufpment for SAHC radioDac. 20 t o roport for dut7 a t Brook. &my Medlaal Conter, .of b o t r ray burn8 in mlco with P= m d produetion of tagged t ions ube tame in a pilot run. Culturor new grow well. Peqrn lw pe malo growth 00 onouoococci in proparation

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bolirn of throxlne i n rata and ph o ap ho lipid8in rab t it 6. Lt. John Schulamt Continued rtudp of An , ' There mre four c a ~ o rof oror-oxoorure a t 2.70 ' Canyon, rima eh odi eri, durlnq tho.'part moqth. In only . dot rtl sao o Soction D, 2ole There were six inatancar whrrr a manla roe k ly total oxceoded 0.3 r . Kormal actio vit ler wore rcrumed a t Bajo during tho rook at art in ? pare ?mer material, ari extraordinary anoant of for cl gn were ab10 to ovoid r x ~ oauro rrxceedtng 9.1 r por man on the day of the first milking, but difflcultlos In mbrequont decant c in atl on of tho lr vessel r led to a nmber o f amall ovor - ox por u rer. During the3a st f osr zsnths, there hrvo beon two occarfanr when the r:nake cloud, r csu ltl n q fras 3XX - 5 op or at lons in %go rJan?on, drifted over the eastern end

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aetcdrolociats a t Xlrtlurd pleld. ftir hopod th8t cor6relation botmoa loeal weather condltlonr urd tho lame no tico to be given of frvorrble or unfavorablo conditions for propoded mot days recomnondatlona for hpndllng procedures, and data required f3r the ce rien of astor ago vault. frm !:ovcrr;t+er 29 t o Dcccctor 13 to disc u rar fer changca o f tho Eeslth Phystcs Diviricn, ORNL,via it od the LaborrDr. Lrurirton S. Taylor, Chfef of Lye Zlophyricr Branch ofthe AEC Dir. a f Ficlocy and Vedlcinc, held an inf3rnrl conference on 3robloxs ct radiologic a a fe ty with re pre sont & t fv or of the Eetlth Division and CMR-12 Group

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Yew drrkrooarr war. put into UIO with stant tenperature control and uslng prevontlng tho trurrfer of a xc err amount8 o f rolutionc Row tjoe calibracc88. Blank donrltler are n o t rubtractrd ruth out ica ~ 1 yby adding matable of l ncl url ted rn rit lor. Ex?oaed s trndardr are developed d nll y. are now recorded. Salf brara typo badger wore start8d -* Sovoral nonltorfng poll cf8a chaneed Robort Uolrr and Alox Outlorroz were givan prallminarj darkroom training. Vrlng a spacer betreon tho hotplatm and trajr of rater for b6ttrr control urlna 60% temperature with 2 minute

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. Pookot ahubom to a tod and aallbsatrd.'. .. 4 8 f . Toch Salvier Nonltorlng (L. Carr): 9ol of tis. rpont in wonitoring, 10% i n 1) Trip rnrrdo b7 Carl Buckland t o Lor twine job for J-Divirion. monl to rl ne mal ntenmco crew8 repairing tte Omeca rxhrurt lfno. Con8iborablo tlm waa spont on this job. 2 ) Several trips zade to 0m0er canyon 4 ) Kow daily sariltoring chr c kr are bolng cOnduct8d around the new r&?!rust a t 5 ) F I v e entire room8 and contonts wore chooked for contamination and recornmendatiens were made. Two dayr rpont i n monitoring act lv l tie8 oerformlng special exo eri x ents.

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10) Koso aountr takon on physlolrtr after , truck and men worn irrurd prgtocti.v6. Tk!r section aovod t o tho Medical 'irscnrcfi 1) Survoy set err ..................... 82

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1 ) 30 hra. for Sloctronlcr Socrtlon. 3. Expo rize n tal 'and 3evelo&ont Work: of vacuum tubes for l nim n atl on purpoaor. Two Dew aloha oountera chookmd and pkcod Special t cat a and davalopaont, 3 3 hours, Wirk waa at art ad to ln v ertl gate the effect o f trc?craturc on the mod01 263 survoy meter a, which arc ured out of doorr in rl ntr r to some axtant, part l cula r li in EatV9 Cangm. Cieht have boon teated t o data, with quit. variable r orul ts. Inthrr tart8will be made. and a report mtc rr we ureloar far modlum aocurrtr work in tho neighborhood of 32* F. De Elophyricr Soctlon: (S. Shlaer) Work ts deter sine the or fact of tho pr3pored nay external talr-rance standards an operrtlans a t Loa- -

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2. Work in Prortrcsr: . lng tho handline o f tubal157 i n hfr emup indicated rtandardr was mort ll kri y to aria. in tm3 opermtions. ' Oric o f theth is the compro8ring o f tuballby scrap into 7hla sptrntisn wa9 studied a it h the results t trn diz g tho itrvcntary WY S cocp leto d without any mmltorlng. Aa &'.toapt will be ;Jade to obtain tha darired results curing invcntory a t tnc end a f the current montk. be tara dir fi on was disc uz sed wlth Lr. Ednln Erookr and 33errt13ns In the tub alloy rhop were rurveyod. Z t a?- pearod that the 2re a tast exposure OCCUFI i n the l ? s ? e c - tzan of 7aci.ined tub allay parts to test conformance 3 f rtudf was undertaken t o Catcralno the the that the :nnature of this Job, the collection of data has boon slow,

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It 8ppearr that lt r:ll be por s lb lot b obtain are arona bly good correl8tlsn between calculated exporure and rriat stand r rds.Itais3 appear8 that the general tack pound of beta rad la tio a in the lnspee'tlon drpartmont Is *ma,det iri bly high on aceaunt if the qs iz tl ty and dl s trl but im 4tuba l login thir area. Chosia trp L8baratory Lndicrto a con rid or abl o Improvement in th odr o tr in e rooms, beroro thoy put on thcfr prrsmel clothing, bocaasc the background was too klgh. At present,

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that may remain on the body aft rr a man ha8 takon a ahorer. mer0 has kcon n o progrerstvc lncreare !n thia background since naraal operation8 uero reawed a t Bayo, ao thmro appaars t o bo a Food chmco that the background rill r o - mairr low enough to per a lts at ? s fac for ~zoclto-iri: ?>r a t the E.&?? 45.t.lstr7 ht arata ry. This was, tam. at the tine because hi0pocket chambcrr wero cropped and I t was ruppored that the off - scala reading8 r arul tod from dlrcharce o f the chmberr from tho impact. El6flh badge subroyuontly showed 0 . 5 3 r f o r the day'r work. Thrr. aro rev c rai known ways Ir: rh?ch a high exposure could h8ve pO Cdt t has kecr. adopted so that i f tho ctenbors rhould be drop?ea anc ailaf then read of fr calc,tho man ulll 00 sont away f ~ o mt h e Laboratorp until h'.s film badgo has born doveloped and read. -f . The sortable fast neutron fl r rion cognter wa3 recrl*rcc! 93.7; :he Electronics Sectlon with a cqmbor o f

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drift in ron r ltl vlt y, and i t has boon roturnrd t'o the Eloc - tGica sootion tor firthor inrortigrtion. e. Tho initial attompt to loc a to radioaativo .UtOgr.phr ha8 fa ii od becaure the paper fl bro i do not Dt.7 =in, fixed, embodded, acd rot tic ned. The hope ts that tho will maintain tho integrity of the papor in neeThis moth04 has not yet bron triod. plated rkortly aft or the arrival ofthe circulating pump. Tho oquipmont i r operating quite art is factor ll ~ , and no toring Saotlon har moved toA - E ull d lng and the porronnol arm b0hg trained l n tha u8e o f the new photo-proccrrin8 equipmat, with special e ~ ~ D h & a l ron accurato control or cond1t:onr. in thom ol ? tlar, wo are attornpting t a analjro oari8tionr d-ao t o aginp o frol ut lons, by running callbrain tho procoding roport. Tho corepressing of tub alloy scrap into brl - quotter, in TU Building, was noaltored b y palm baddon,

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(film afi ix od inmido tho loather glovo) , wirt m d body badpa ; tho rat0 of r xp ru roof tho hand appoand t o lnporrlblo t o obtain a fairly good corrolatlon betwoon oxproporod nor toloranco rtAndarda,' tho 8xporurb of the palm a. Patlontr treat od at Plrrt Aid Stationr:

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Dr. Robart &.Carter, steff member o r the -a. A rtuay o r uranium hazards i n ?? 916g. was was helc with re prez ent atl ves of CYR-6 rrcardfng the results o f this stud:, including recommondutions, (111s

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tlon rtud7 war art loin tho olootro-p1rting doparkrwnt. for carbon monoxido In a dw ol ll ~Ln whloh a ruopected caao o f polronine Occ ~ rlnd. -c . Tests woco Rad0 ror mercury vapor in tto for rpectrorcoplc m rly rir. for otono ina room in U-Eulldlr.g, whore an electro str tlc air cleanor l a in operotion. Further tort r rill bo mad. sul t s rhon tho7 ar. oomplotad. z. Roprerontatlvor of tho Soction part lol pate d in conferoneor on d1888tOr programi, air pollution, urd 8.8te Glrporal during tho month. 8 . Work Aocomplirbod (Chrapoo i n Yothodr or Procedurar -a a h rtud7 o f rrrlour mthodr for the dotorda8tfon of uranium In air is coctinulng. Vu jour mothodr of a i r rampling WON coaprr8d i n connoctlon with tho 8tudf i n TO-O&dgO Such comprrlroar ~111be contfnuod In hrrther

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doratle number o f rrapler w0.m roa eod at S rn dir urd am Addirlonal apace i r noododl abol ~ genlarood a t preront. for dovrlcpnont work on air amp ling oqulpmont urd for tho nocerrary calibration of ruch oqulpmont. Such cal?bratlon work l r particular17 laportant horo, bo8auro o f tho high a ltl tudo. Kart of the purebred equipment irc all brato d altitude irr oreor toro cure aoourato porultm. 3. Por it l ve Pu array8 completed a.Est iv ation of Amrlciw in urlno. 1. Es tim tion or uraniusr 1n urino. Year toda tr, January latto Ihcembor lrt, 19483