Oak Ridge Reservation: Rala, Iodine-131 & Cesium-137: Section B: Other Divisions

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Rala, Iodine-131 & Cesium-137

Section B:

Other Divisions

Radioisotope Processing Area Construction Records, 1948-1949

Location:

Active:
Inactive: Oak Ridge Operations, Records Holding Center, 280B Laboratory Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830

Access Restrictions: Restricted, Confidential data; facility is a security classified area	*Volume*: 7 cu. ft.
Accession or Other ID Number: 935	Condition: Fair
Container Number H-154-10	Medium: Paper and photographs
Scanning Suitability: Not entirely suitable; includes blueprints, drawings, photographs, carbon copies, and oversize documents	*Duplication*: Unknown

Arrangement: Subject file classification

Originating Office: Oak Ridge Operations Office, Production Division

Finding Aids: NARA Standard Form 135

Disposition AuthorityUnscheduled

Series Description: This record series contains correspondence, budget and cost estimates, reports, and property inventories. Drawings and photographs related to construction at ORNL include an air filter building for the pile, the mouse genetics facility, fire protection improvements, and patrol roads. It also includes illustrations of proposed plans for the "new" ORNL by the Austin Company. A folder titled "CL-63 Radioisotope Processing Area CL-56" in box H-154-5 contains evaluations, a drawing of the Isotope Processing Area buildings 706 C&D exhaust system plans, a signed construction request for the isotope area which justifies the continuing RaLa production and describes future facilities, a drawing titled "Isotopes Process Area 706-D Area Proposed Plot Plan B-3983," modifications to the construction directive, memoranda discussing isotope shipments and the need for expanded facilities, and construction photographs.

Data Elements: 6, 117