J. STANDARD FORM NO. 64 os Q 7ey f ros .” é ~— i Office Memorandum e UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : FROM : J.C. Bugher, Director, Division of Biology and Medicine, Washington DATE: December 1, 1952 af Cj ey 15 W. E. Kelley, Manager, New York Operations Office We bs "nermonmrans METEOROLOGICAL PROGRAM SYMBOL: sELV:ib The meteorological program which has been conducted at the Brookhaven National Laboratory for the past several years has been directed primarily toward maintaining the present off-site radiation level agreed upon by Brookhaven and the Commission. If, as currently proposed, the operating tolerance level is raised by a factor of 10, there will be essentially no chance that the off-site dose rate will ever be exceeded as a result of reactor operations at current maximum power levels. Consequently, it will be no longer necessary to con- tinue meteorological work at Brookhaven on anything like the present scale for monitoring purposes alone. In view of these facts, the Laboratory is faced with the necessity of terminating the meteorology program and abandoning the facilities at, or shortly after, the end of the current fiscal year. The facilities consist of a remodeled wood frame building, valued at $66,8)0, pro- viding 6000 sq.ft. of space for offices and housingof teletype machines and weather recording equipment. Erected in the vicinity of this building are two steel towers 160 ft. and 20 ft. in height, valued at $311,000. The scientific equipment in the control building along with the meteorological instruments and smoke generator unit mounted on the towers are valued at $61,000. They are now operated by a staff of 10 Brookhaven employees and 2 representatives of the U. S. Weather Bureau. Abandonment of the program would reduce the equipment pod substantially to scrap value, The research work on the fundamentals of smoke diffusion which has come from this laboratory is among the outstanding work which has been accomplished in the United States in the past several years. To my knowledge, the laboratory affords the only location where continuous unclassified research on these problems is being carried out. A coordination of the work of the Brookhaven Meteorology Laboratory with that being done on the New York University Wind Tunnel Project will make possible an evaluation of wind tunnel scale factors and open the way to laboratory diagnosis of atmospheric pollution problems. The Brookhaven facilities are being duplicated in miniature for the New York University Wind Tunnel so that identical atmospheric conditions can be transferred and studied directly. eA Sey OM) DO® ARCHIVES