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The Act (EEOICPA) established a compensation program for individuals who, over the past 50 years, have performed duties uniquely related to the nuclear weapons production and testing programs at Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies. OCAS will reconstruct radiation doses by evaluating all appropriate data relevant to which an individual worker or group of workers have been exposed, particularly when radiation monitoring data are unavailable, incomplete, or of poor quality. The data used for the dose reconstructions will be obtained through requests sent to DOE and data search and capture efforts.
2008 Data Search and Capture Efforts for DOE Cases
OCAS along with Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), the contractor hired to support NIOSH's responsibilities under The Act, have been involved in data search and capture efforts. These efforts are being conducted at various DOE sites and federal and private records storage locations throughout the United States to retrieve radiation monitoring data needed to conduct dose reconstructions.
Listed below are the data search and capture efforts for DOE sites that occurred during 2008. When available, we have included the sites for which information was recovered. The most recent efforts are at the top of the list:
- MoundView
Miamisburg, OH
July 2008
Health Physics and technical reports from the late 1940s and 1950s,
summary instructions for handling Cotter concentrates, and papers
describing polonium production including an analysis of radioactive
impurities were retrieved for the Mound Plant during this data capture
effort. Four boxes of information were reviewed and 34 documents were
retrieved.
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- Savannah River Site
Aiken, SC
July 2008
Twenty-four boxes of information and approximately 600 documents were
reviewed. Approximately 450 documents were retrieved on the Savannah River
Site consisting primarily of technical reports and monthly progress reports
from the Health Physics Group and the Works Technical Department.
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- Kansas City Federal Records Center
Kansas City, MO
July 2008
During this data capture effort, 102 boxes of information
were reviewed and 146 documents were retrieved. Reports of
analysis and bioassay sample routing logs, environmental
monitoring reports, and soil and isotopic analysis were retrieved
for the New Brunswick Laboratory; uranium guidelines,
radiological survey results, and characterization results
were retrieved for the Baker Brothers facility; site plan,
low level waste storage disposal records, gamma-ray exposure
rate surveys, and reports of analysis were retrieved for the
Albany Research Center; and sampling data and an activity
safety envelope for remedial action were retrieved for the
Associated Aircraft Tool and Manufacturing Co.
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- MoundView
Miamisburg, OH
July 2008
One hundred documents were retrieved for the Mound Plant during
this data capture trip. Technical summary reports, technical
documents for numerous isotopes (e.g., actinium, polonium, cerium),
monthly reports, heat source and Radioisotopic Thermoelectric Generator
status reports, plutonium oxide shipment papers, waste reports, and a
listing of Mound publications were retrieved.
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- Hanford
Richland, WA
July 2008
Approximately 25 boxes of information were reviewed.
Radiation survey cards with neutron measurements, tritium
bioassay, special bioassay requests and results, unusual
radionuclides, daily high urine results, urine bioassay, beta
request sheets, and polonium bioassay information were
retrieved for the Hanford facility.
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- Atlanta National Archives
and Records Administration (NARA)
Morrow, GA
June 2008
Twenty-three boxes of information were reviewed and 303
documents were retrieved during this data capture trip
such as: shipments of billets to sites from the B&T Metals
facility; progress reports from 1943 and 1945, badge results,
air sampling results, and radium body burdens for the Linde
Ceramics Plant; and film badge and air sample reports from 1945
and 1946, radon breath measurements, reports on medical conditions
including times spent in railroad cars with ores, process
descriptions, and material transfer information for the Middlesex
Sampling Plant.
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- Hanford
Richland, WA
June 2008
Neutron surveys; T Plant records and incidents; radiation surveys
for buildings 308, 324, and 69; air samples for 242-T; isolation
reports for building 231; survey logs and forms for building 234-5;
tritium bioassay results for buildings 108-B and 108-F were retrieved
for the Hanford facility. Forty-four boxes of information were
reviewed and several cubic feet of documents were retrieved that
will need to be scanned and declassified.
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- Atlanta National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA)
Morrow, GA
May 2008
Thirty-six boxes of information were reviewed and 176 documents were
retrieved. The following information was retrieved: documents describing
some of the work being performed at the Connecticut Aircraft Nuclear
Engine Laboratory (CANEL); correspondence regarding material transfers
and a sampling of Atomic Nuclear Propulsion logbooks dating from 1955 for
the General Electric (Evandale) facility; reports on transactions between
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Vitro Manufacturing
(Canonsburg) facilities; job-specific external monitoring reports, radon
analyses, radiological survey summaries, material transactions, and a
brief history of the Middlesex Sampling Plant.
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- Pantex Plant
Amarillo, TX
May 2008
Thirty boxes of information were reviewed to locate data for the Pantex
Plant. One and a half boxes of documents were retrieved that will be
examined in a more detailed manner to extract information. A broad range
of site-specific documentation with respect to workplace exposures, policies,
procedures, and monitoring results was retrieved. Substantial quantities of
reported radiochemical analyses for Pantex Plant samples provided by Controls
for Environmental Pollution were examined. Copies of typically incident
related examinations by other laboratories such as Eberline and Los Alamos
National Laboratory and numerous personnel dosimeter routine reports by
vendors were requested. In addition, copies of historical radiation safety
policies were obtained.
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- MoundView
Miamisburg, OH
May 2008
During this data capture trip, the following information was retrieved for
the Feed Materials Production Center (Fernald): in vivo computer printouts,
1950's process documents, packages of receipts, thorium reports, and airborne
exposure evaluations from Plants 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, Pilot Plant and the Lab.
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- MoundView
Miamisburg, OH
April 2008
Fifteen boxes of information were reviewed and 237 documents were retrieved
during this data capture effort. The following documents were retrieved:
TH02 project, processed thorium nitrate, thorium oxide powder, enriched uranium
and thorium receipts, blood chemistry work, incident reports, process reports,
and off-site air sampling data.
This effort recovered information on the following DOE sites:
| Feed Materials Production Center
(Fernald) |
| General Electric Company (Ohio) |
| Middlesex Sampling Plant |
| Mound Plant |
| New Brunswick Laboratory |
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- Nevada Test Site Records Center
Las Vegas, NV
April 2008
The Nevada Test Site database was reviewed and 73 documents were retrieved.
Early environmental air sampling data and operation tunnel air sampling results
from 1962 to the mid-1990s were retrieved for the Nevada Test Site facility.
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- Argonne National Laboratory - East
Argonne, IL
March 2008
Sixty-nine boxes were reviewed and 126 documents were retrieved during this data
capture effort. The following documents were retrieved: radiological logbooks
(1944-1945); external exposure data; miscellaneous personnel files; historical
files such as memos, activity reports, and miscellaneous information (1942-1949);
laboratory notes (1944-1945); experiment investigation reports; incident reports;
Metallurgical Laboratory Project Handbook (1945); animal experiments (1944-1945);
personnel listings (1944-1945); air sample data; radiation surveys; correspondence
files; personnel exposures; incident reports; and weekly activity reports.
This effort recovered information on the following DOE sites:
| Metallurgical Laboratory |
| New Brunswick Laboratory |
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- United States Department of Energy Headquarters
Germantown, MD
March 2008
During this data capture trip, relevant parts of the Manhattan Engineering District
History manuals were retrieved. Processes were described and captured.
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- MoundView
Miamisburg, OH
March 2008
Thirty-one boxes were reviewed and 356 documents were retrieved. Mound Plant Ac-227
bioassay data, neutron dosimetry tests, lists of authorized entrants for the R
Building Corridor 5 Project, analysis of liquid scintillation count of Pu, paired
n-p whole body, extremity dosimetry results, Pu body burden data, Po kidney and
spleen lifetime doses, and incident reports were retrieved.
This effort recovered information on the following DOE sites:
| Feed Materials Production Center
(Fernald) |
| Lake Ontario Ordnance Works |
| Mound Plant |
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- MoundView
Miamisburg, OH
February 2008
During this data capture effort, 25 boxes of information were reviewed and 96
documents were retrieved. Thorium accountability documents, film badge
correspondence, film badge results, air samples, radon monitoring results, uranium
inventories, isotopic and chemical analyses, environmental surveillance plans,
spoil pile radiological surveys, water sample results, and gamma neutron survey
results were retrieved.
This effort recovered information on the following DOE sites:
| Feed Materials Production Center
(Fernald) |
| Lake Ontario Ordnance Works |
| Middlesex Sampling Plant |
| Mound Plant |
| New Brunswick Laboratory |
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- Pantex Plant
Amarillo, TX
January 2008
Various finding aids (e.g., document indexes) were retrieved for the Pantex Plant
during this data reconnaissance trip. The finding aids were reviewed so that a
data capture trip can be planned in the future.
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- State of New Jersey, Department of Environmental
Radiation
Trenton, NJ
January 2008
During this data capture, 14 Boxes, 2 File Cabinets, and 6 Shelves of information
were reviewed. Ninety-three remediation and environmental documents were retrieved.
This effort recovered information on the following DOE sites:
| Du Pont Deepwater Works |
| Kellex/Pierpont |
| Middlesex Sampling Plant |
| New Brunswick Laboratory |
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- Mound Plant
Miamisburg, OH
January 2008
Twenty-four boxes of information were reviewed and 434 documents were retrieved.
Exposure studies, numerous air sampling results, and an analysis of RU-106
contamination in recycled thorium was retrieved.
This effort recovered information on the following DOE site:
| Feed Materials Production Center
(Fernald) |
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Technical Documents Used in Dose Reconstruction
If the energy employee's personal radiation information is incomplete, NIOSH will use other sources to estimate the radiation dose. This may involve using technical documents called Site Profiles, Technical Basis Documents, and Technical Information Bulletins. General information on these documents and a listing of approved technical documents can be found on the Technical Documents Used in Dose Reconstruction page.
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Memorandum of Understanding Between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Energy
The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) serves to set forth the authorities, responsibilities, and procedures between the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Energy to conduct statutorily mandated activities required to assist with claims processing under The Act.
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Page last updated: September 235, 2008
Page last reviewed: May 30, 2008
Content Source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
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