Richland Operations Office 
 
SERIES TITLE Production & Waste Management Division, Classified Correspondence Files 
 
 
INCLUSIVE DATES 1943 1973 
 
 
ARRANGEMENT Subject 
 
 
VOLUME 49 cubic feet 
 
 
DESCRIPTION 
This series documents operations office oversight of production reactor operations. 
It includes documentation on reactor operating problems such as graphite expansion, 
cost of operations, plutonium production, reactor safety, reactor waste, chemical 
processing activities, and cost analyses of production reactor shutdown. It contains 
files on accidental exposure and cancer treatment, Columbia River pollution, Building 
234 design, fallout data collection, heavy water production, and RaLa production at 
Richland and Los Alamos. The cancer treatment file is a Medicine Health and Safety 
(MH&S) 3-8 Special Case file that includes correspondence about the treatment of 
cancer patients using the Richland whole body counter. The series consists of letters, 
memorandums, reports, TWXs, charts, graphs, handwritten notes, and meeting 
minutes. The records are arranged according to several subject filing systems, one 
of which is the AEC numeric filing system. A box index is available. Box numbers 
A00601, A00739, B00125, C00361, 001418, 001607, 002421, 002461, 002876, 
003085, 007532, 007541, 007545, 008748, 008751, 008784, 009920, 010478, 
015200, 015202, 015203, 015204, 015227, 015237, 015270, 016211, 016250, 
022746, 022749, 024721, 024722, 027216, 027256, 027260, 028732, 028766, 
029363, 030750, 030751, 030755, 030758, 030760, 033273, 038287, 039230, 
039231, 039270, 046093, 046220. 
 
 
RESTRICTIONS This series contains classified information. 
 
 
LOCATION OF RECORDS 
Records Holding Area 
715 Swift Blvd. 
Richland, WA 99352