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Urinary Uranium (UU) Program Records, 1958-1964

Location:

Active:
Inactive: ORISE, CER Vault, Room 129

Access Restrictions: Records are unclassified
and may be a Privacy Act System of Records;
ORISE is an access-restricted facility.

Volume: 1.75 cu. ft.

Accession or Other ID Number: None

Condition:Fair

Container Number: FC-23-4

Medium: Paper

Scanning Suitability: Series contains
handwritten notes and graphs.

Duplication: Unknown
Arrangement: Alphabetical by name

Originating Office: Health and Safety Department, Uranium Division, Mallinckrodt Chemical Works

Finding Aids: Vault Inventory Database

Disposition Authority: Unscheduled

Series Description: This series contains records regarding the Urinary Uranium (UU) Program conducted at Mallinckrodt Chemical Works. Records include health reports, laboratory notebooks, and quarterly and annual reports. The health reports and laboratory notebooks provide the UU concentration for each employee in milligrams per liter. Graphs in the reports indicate the actual and average monthly and yearly UU action levels for each employee. Quarterly analyses reports provide UU in milligrams per liter and the number and percentage of personnel sampled.

For related records, see IV. Analysis Files, Uranium Dust Lung Cancer Study Exposure Data: Mallinckrodt, 1942-1966.

Data Elements: 8, 16, 31, 68, 75

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