Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) 
 
SERIES TITLE Office of Operational Safety, Radiological Section,  
             J.R. Horan Correspondence and Reading Files 
 
 
INCLUSIVE DATES 1958 1972 
 
 
ARRANGEMENT Numerical filing system 
 
 
VOLUME 5 cubic feet 
 
 
DESCRIPTION 
These files, also known as "J.R. Horan Letter Files," are subject-based files which 
contain correspondence, reports, reprints, news clippings, interview transcripts, and 
raw data. Horan was the director for many years of the Health and Safety Division. 
Subjects include radium, film dosimetry, accidents, radiological assistance, water 
quality, structural studies, contamination and decontamination, radiation exposure, 
and contamination control. There is one file on John Gofman and Arthur Tamplin 
regarding their criticism of the Atomic Energy Commission in the 1970s. 
 
 
LOCATION OF RECORDS 
Federal Records Center 
Seattle, WA 98115