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Martin D. Whitaker's Subject Files, 1942-1945Location: Active:
Originating Office: Central Management Office, Director's Office Finding Aids: Records Center "BLUREC" Database Disposition AuthorityUnscheduled Series Description: This record series contains Martin D. Whitaker's incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, and progress reports. The series is unorganized, with folders untitled and documents loose within the box. The records deal with technical matters relating to ORNL's work in support of the Manhattan Project. Information on the separations process is included. Of particular interest are several documents relating to the RaLa process (also referred to as the barium-lanthanum process), including progress reports and research and development reports for July through November 1944, a memorandum on the recovery of "product" from lanthanum-140 production wastes, and a series of memoranda on the separation of barium-140 from UNH solutions. The Fluorine Generation Binder includes references to cesium.
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