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dated 3 May 1948, subject:
RadSafe Instruments".
"Packaging and Shipping Requirements for -
It was Mr. @@ME&e recommendation that a quaitity
of instruments be held in stock at Los Alamos.
In considering the list
of instruments for shipment to Los Alamos he endeavored to list only
those instruments which had proven to be of field use.
Those classes
of equipment which proved to be of no great merit for field use or which
require further development would be returned to Oak Ridge.
Only equip-
ment which he felt reasonably certain would be on hand at Oak Ridge as
sufficient surplus stock by 16 June, excluding the TG—7.6 RadSafe
instruments, was included to go to Los Alamos.
Laboratory equipment
such as scalers and count rate meters would be returned to Oak Ridge.
MEM, recommended that facilities be established to keep the Los
Alamos stock in operating condition.
If at any time an emergency
arises in the AEC where the Los Alamos stock instruments are required
elsewhere, a written request for transfer will be issued by him from
Oak Ridge.
Such a request will be made only in cases of emergencies.
Instruments which had been obtained from BuShips are to be returned
to Dr. Gumiigiilkem at the Naval Research Laboratory at Anacostia, D.C.
One instrument will be returned to the Naval Damage Control School,
Radiological Safety Division, Treasure Island, California,
Certain
other materials from the service tests will be returned to the Radia-
tion Laboratory, Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, California, the Naval Research Institute, Bethseda, Maryland, and to the AFSWP,
Washington, D.C.
At present, no information has been received on the
disposition ofradium sources but instructions concerning their ultimate
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