Ne process. The Division, of course, has as its primary function the protection of the health of the Laboratory workers and the assurante to the Laboratory that the staff is physically able to put forth its maximum effort. Much of the work of the Laboratory is of a suffi- eientiy disarre nature, often dealing as it does with relatively uninown substances and procedures, so that mich of the routine pro greamatic work of the Division mist be preceded by an intensive period of research and development. This is particularly obvious the work of the Industrial Rygiene Group. in The Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, hovever, is an installation of such unique character with such unusual equipment that common pense demands the inclusi of a properly limited program of basic research. Such « progran of course, be in proportion to the rest of the Division and the La oratory as a whole. It so happens that there are encugh unknowns directly or indirectly related to the work of the Laboratory and where the existing facilities lend themselves to research programs that there is no trouble in selecting problems for attack. The st on beta ray burns, for example, ia one of more interest to Los A than ary other installation in the AIC. By the same token, the sthdy of radiation cataracts which has been principally supported by H-Dirision although sponsored by the Los Alamos Medical Center is logicklly carried out here because of the evailability of the reactors and equipment essential to the vork. The year 1950, with the outbreak of the Korean War and the -j- IO4RRYD Srey, LANL