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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 |