er ¢ i g. Section 1. Monitoring a. Generel Changes and Improvements: The Section Leader spent a week this fall at the Oak pidse National Laboratory studying the methads of the Health Physics Difision. The exchange of ideas and methods which came at the end of] the veek vas profitable to both ORNL and LASL. The Section has asmmed the responsibility for all s washing and leak-testing, A thorium and radium capsule leek-test device is being ordered to aid in carrying out thie vork. equipment can te improved considerably. Our A lucite aquarium filled ivith lead-perchlorate solution proved unsuccessful «se a shield tecausejit erecked and leaked. for the AEC, A camplete local source inventory vas comple We have not attained, as yet, full cooperatio in nqti- fying our Section of all source movements at the Site. A new Emergency Vehicle has been outfitted with radiation detecting meters, complete sets of protective clothing, and sanpl equipment for other types of hasards. rubber-lined alumimm cases. The meters have been p The panel truck, now being used, too little room for getting at the equipment, however, and a one-ton has been requisitioned to replace the emaller truck. A series of trial emergency rune are being carried cut at present vith the cooperetion of the Security Service, the Safety Directar, and the 5S various site persomel, LOUKNSTI 1309145 016 LANL