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Listed below are the data search and capture efforts for AWE 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:
- Kansas City Federal Records Center
Lee's Summit, MO
October 2008
Documents relating to external exposure of the sites below were retrieved. The information was the result of dosimetry services provided to many sites for a period of time by the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Twenty-eight boxes of information were reviewed and 107 documents were retrieved.
This effort recovered information on the following AWE sites:
| Bendix Aviation |
| Brush Beryllium (Detroit & Cleveland sites) |
| Carnegie Institute of Technology |
| DOW Chemical Co. (Madison & Walnut Creek sites) |
| Harshaw Chemical Co. |
| Horizons, Inc. |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| New York University |
| Sylvania Corning Nuclear Corp. (Bayside & Hicksville sites) |
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Cambridge, MA
October 2008
One folder of information was reviewed and retrieved that contained photographs of the Hood Building.
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- Concord Public Library
Concord, MA
October 2008
Three boxes of information were reviewed and several documents were retrieved for the Nuclear Metals, Inc. facility. Area, environmental, personal monitoring, and bioassay program procedures were retrieved.
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- Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville, IL
October 2008
Several cabinet drawers of information were reviewed and 107 documents were retrieved. The following information was retrieved: air sampling data from 1956 - 1960, radiation surveys, a history of the site through 1966, and a roster of employees with various diseases for the Dow Chemical Co. (Madison) facility; interim and final decontamination reports from the immediate post war period and a brief summary of exposure data for the Metallurgical Laboratory.
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- Chicago Federal Records Center
Chicago, IL
September 2008
Fifty-nine boxes of information were reviewed and 61 documents were retrieved for the General Electric Company (Ohio) such as: in-plant air samples, personnel exposure data, high bay stack counting data, and visitor radiation exposure information.
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- Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Jefferson, MO
September 2008
The following information was retrieved during this data capture effort: leaching of radionuclides, radioactive soil beneath parking garage ramp, air and environmental results, history of St. Louis Uranium Processing plant radioactive waste sites, radium pits removal action work plan, and pre-design investigation summary reports for the St. Louis Airport Storage Site (SLAPS) facility; rod straightening test and air dust samples for the Medart Co.; historical storage of radioactive materials, personnel interviews, and historical storage of radiation materials for the Tyson Valley Powder Farm; and lost or forgotten sites information and transmittal of interim groundwater monitoring plan for the United Nuclear Corp. Thirty linear
feet of shelves and 59 boxes of information were reviewed and 136 documents were retrieved.
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- MJW Corporation
Buffalo, NY
August 2008
During this data capture trip, 180 documents were reviewed and 21 documents were retrieved for the Linde Ceramics Plant. Documentation related to cleanup verification and a public meeting report of the proposed plan for Building 14 was retrieved.
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- Department of Natural Resources
Jefferson, MO
August 2008
Various records for the Tyson Valley Powder Farm were retrieved during this data capture trip; 546 pages of information were retrieved. Forty binders of information were reviewed.
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- Kansas City Federal Records Center
Kansas City, MO
August 2008
Ninety-three boxes of information were reviewed and 146 documents were retrieved such as: bioassay results, gamma exposure rate surveys, controlled area access log for Associated Aircraft Tool and Manufacturing Co.; results of a preliminary radiological survey, guidelines for uranium residual radioactive material in soil, and certification docket for remedial action performed for B&T Metals; bioassay results and radiation surveys for Buildings 513-519 of Baker & Co.; environmental samples for Colonie Site; quarterly reports of analysis and environmental samples for Maywood Chemical Works; environmental samples and results for Saint Louis Airport Storage (SLAPS); weekly reports, contracts, news articles, radiological data, characterization report, and monthly accountability report for Ventron Corp.
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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. 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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- 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 & Revere Copper and Brass facilities; progress
reports from 1943 and 1945, badge results, air sampling results, and radium
body burdens for the Linde Ceramics Plant; discussions of pitchblende as a
source for polonium as well as uranium and radium, March and October 1944
film badge results, and a 1942 summary of experimental work with uranium for
the Vitro Manufacturing (Canonsburg) facility.
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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: reports on transactions between the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Vitro Manufacturing (Canonsburg)
facilities; correspondence regarding material transfers and a sampling of Atomic
Nuclear Propulsion logbooks dating from 1955 from the General Electric (Ohio)
facility; a roster of employees that identifies actual time spent on Manhattan
Engineering District and Atomic Energy Commission work, inventories of uranium
scrap to be burned, and a brief history of the types of ore handled at the Vitro
Manufacturing (Canonsburg) facility; plant processes and problems, radiological
survey data, and internal and external dosimetry data for the Harshaw Chemical Co.
facility.
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- MoundView
Miamisburg, OH
May 2008
During this data capture trip, the following information was retrieved: uranium
rolling data for Allegheny Ludlum Steel and Bethlehem Steel; enriched uranium and
thorium procedures for and enriched uranium shipments to Sylvania Corning Nuclear
Corp. (Bayside); and trip reports for Simonds Saw & Steel. Fifteen boxes of
information were reviewed and 89 documents were retrieved.
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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 AWE sites:
| General Electric Company (Ohio) |
| W.R. Grace |
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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 AWE site:
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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 plutonium,
paired neutron-photon whole body, extremity dosimetry results, plutonium body burden
data, polonium kidney and spleen lifetime doses, and incident reports were retrieved.
This effort recovered information on the following AWE site:
| Sylvania-Corning Nuclear Corp. (Bayside
Laboratories) |
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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 AWE sites:
| Vitro Manufacturing |
| W.R. Grace (Erwin) |
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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 AWE sites:
| Du Pont Deepwater Works |
| Kellex/Pierpont |
| Maywood Chemical Works |
| Westinghouse Electric Corp. (Bloomfield) |
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Page last updated: January 9, 2009
Page last reviewed: January 9, 2009
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