—S-E-C-R-E-Bof Argonne National Laboratory and its 32 participating universities and research institutions in the Midwest.
Eniwetok Biological Laboratory
22. The Commission is considering the establishment of a
small biological station at Eniwetok which would continue the
work heretofore
conducted by the University of Washington
in
measuring the uptake of fission products by plants, flsh,
other marine animals in the Pacific.
made available
The facilittes would be
to other Government agencies and
sity biologists.
and
to a
few univer-
Construction and maintenance costs for a small
laboratory accommodating elght blologists would be held toa
minimum by using existing facilities.
(End of UNCLASSIFIED
section.)
23. When the U.
&.
Public Health Service
conducted a
survey of some 60 uranium mines on the Colorado Plateau in 1950,
Lt was found that concentrations of radon and its radioactive
products
in
standards.
the mine atmospheres were
far higher than recommended
Under an agreement with the Commission,
Health Service
in
the summer of
1952
surveyed
the Public
157 mines,
repre-
senting about 90 percent of those operating on the Plateau.
Re-
sults showed that in 78 percent of these mines employing 84
percent of the miners atmospheric concentrations of radioactive
products
of radon were
standard adopted by the
higher than the
1]00-microcurtes-per-liter
Public Health Service.
In
1953
investiga-
tions will he continued to find effective methods for reducing
(End of —REMPREGC-PED-section.)
tem,
this concentration.
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