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Health Physics General Correspondence, 1943-1958Location: Active:
Originating Office: Health Physics Division Finding Aids: Records Center "BLUREC" Database Disposition AuthorityUnscheduled Series Description: This record series contains correspondence, memoranda, and survey reports relating to the radiation monitoring and protection function of the Health Physics Division. Information includes "Activity Hazard Incident Reports," which identify employees involved in radiological incidents, including several for building 706 during 1948-1949; correspondence concerning incidents and personnel exposures in isotope production and handling areas; problems with shipping radioactive material, circa 1948-1949, and monitoring of containers received from Hanford; monitoring of rail cars on the K-25 siding, circa 1950; radiation survey results for building 9204-1 at Y-12 from January 1949; practice evacuations from the isotope area during 1951; and area background monitoring through the 1950s.
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