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Epidemiologic Studies

Rala, Iodine-131 & Cesium-137


Section A:

Operations Division

RaLa Shipment Reports, 1946-1952

Location:

Active:
Inactive: ORNL, Building 4500N, Rm. H205 vault

Access Restrictions: Unclassified; vault is a security classified area

Volume: 6 lin. in.

Accession or Other ID Number: 46-6-272,46-5-330, 46-3-187, 46-4-370, 46-8-221, 46-12-167, 46-12-302, 47-7-339, 47-8-209, 47-9-125, 47-10-276, 47-11-29, 47-11-202, 47-11-461, 48-2-155, 48-9-51, 48-1-296, 48-3-256, 48-7-248, 49-1-172, 49-3-264, 49-4-220, 52-9-3

Condition: Good

Container Number: Open shelves

Medium: Paper

Scanning Suitability: Suitable

Duplication: Unknown

Arrangement: Numerical by Central File number

Originating Office: Operations Division, Department-706D Area

Finding Aids: Index to Central Files Memoranda, 1947; 1948-1949; 1950-1951; 1952-1959

Disposition AuthorityUnscheduled

Series Description: This record series consists of memoranda and correspondence pertaining to RaLa shipments from the 706-D building. Reports provide a narrative description of the shipment, describing the physical content; its color; its number of curies; a spectrographic analysis of the shipment, which indicates its metal content in mgs (Pb, Fe, Cr, Ni, Sr, Ba); its radiation reading in roentgens per hour and the date and time of the reading; and anything unusual about the shipment. Reports are from the 706 D building manager, S. A. Reynolds, to M. C. Leverett, Director of Research and Development, Technical Division. This series also contains correspondence between E. J. Witkowski (ORNL) and J. A. Leary (LANL) concerning RaLa shipments from ORNL to LANL. Reports provide the RaLa run number and the RaLa shipment number and the total curies in the shipment. Reports describe the cleanliness of the shipment, the results of analysis for contamination, the tentative date of the next shipment, the reason for a failed run, and a description of the "milking" of a shipment at Los Alamos for lanthanum-140.

Data Elements: 6, 88, 120


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