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Radioactive Fallout

LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY
Livermore, California

Records at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are primarily in three areas: the Archives, L Division, and individual offices.

The archives has in its collection the R Division's Pluto project files, which are all unclassified. It also holds the Plowshare records, including those formerly held by Dr. Howard Tewes, a Livermore scientist. This latter group is a very rich collection. Similar collections may also exist in other divisions or at the Nevada Test Site.

L Division records, which remain in the offices of the division, primarily contain documents on Livermore events, including the Nevada Aerial Tracking Systems and Aerial Radiation Measurements Systems reports, both unclassified and classified. All records are catalogued by series and events, including weapons and Plowshare materials. The L Division Test Program Library has an extensive photograph, film, and filmstrip collection, all classified.

The main library at LLNL holds a special collection on fallout. The collection contains approximately 500 reports on fallout and includes the holdings of the former Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory at the Presidio in San Francisco and some material from the former New York Health and Safety Laboratory. According to the librarian, this fallout collection consists of reports not only from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory but also from other laboratories, agencies, government departments, universities, and private industry. While 98 percent of the library's fallout collection represents finished reports, the fallout collection does have a small amount of memoranda and correspondence.

The Environmental Sciences Division at Livermore also has an unclassified database of papers pertaining to the environmental transport of radionuclides.

The laboratory retains custody of the papers of Edward Teller, director from 1958-1960. His classified papers are in the director's office. Permission from the director's office is necessary for those wishing to see the Teller papers at the laboratory.

DESCRIPTION

TOTAL SIZE (FEET)

POTENTIALLY RELEVANT (FEET)

HIGHEST CLASSIFICATION

VALUE

L Division

100 100 Secret/RD Useful to Essential
Archives
  Pluto
  Plowshare


20
60

1
10

Unclassified
Secret/RD

Essential
Essential
Main library fallout collection

Unknown 1 Secret/RD Useful
Environmental Sciences Division

20 20 Unclassified Peripheral
Database

9 9 Unclassified Peripheral
Edward Teller papers

Unknown Unknown Unclassified Peripheral

CONTACT

Dr. Jim Carothers, Archivist
University of California
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
P.O. Box 808
Livermore, CA 94550
  (415) 422-7010

L Division
  Estelle Rigney (415) 423-7215

LLNL Library
P.O. Box 5500
Livermore, CA 94550
  Richard K. Hunt (415) 422-5834

Environmental Sciences Division, LLNL
P.O. Box 5507
Mail Stop L-453
Livermore, CA 94550
  Dr. Lynn Anspaugh (415) 422-3840

HAI COLLECTION EFFORT
(volume in cubic feet)

DESCRIPTION

SCREENED

SELECTED

IN PROCESS

SENT TO CIC

Miscellaneous Microfilm Documents* 23 2.6 0 2.6

*  This collection was selected by LLNL officials and sent to HAI for screening. HAI was unable to determine the precise origin of these documents within the LLNL records management system.

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