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Epidemiologic Studies

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Study Documentation

Study Records, ca. 1945-1976

Location:

Active:
Inactive: LANL, Technical Area 59, Room 203, Los Alamos, NM 87545
Access Restrictions: Records are unclassified and may be a Privacy Act System of Records

Volume: 3 cu. ft.

Accession or Other ID Number: None

Condition: Good

Container Number: Vertical file cabinet

Medium: Paper

Scanning Suitability: Series consists of oversize and handwritten records.

Duplication: Unknown

Arrangement: None

Originating Office: LANL, Occupational Medicine Group, Epidemiology

Finding Aids: None

Disposition Authority: Unscheduled

Series Description: This record series consists of materials created as part of an early 1970s study of Los Alamos plutonium workers. The files include study correspondence; raw data on Los Alamos workers in the mid-1940s, including employee names, urinalysis dates and results, exposure ratings, accident records, and employers (either University of California or Zia Company); data analyses of body burden readings; and work histories of Zia Company employees, which provide names, Z numbers, job titles, and hire and termination dates. The materials also contain lists of employees involved in plutonium accidents and accident dates; urine and fecal sample test results; and calculated plutonium body burdens, in nanocuries, with badge numbers as identifiers.

Data Elements: 6, 16, 24-25, 28, 68, 71

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