was designed and constructed of this material and located near the Parry

Island mess hall,

It was refrigerated by equipment salvaged from refrig-

erators that were on the island prior to the Project.

On November 24, 1950, a letter was received from the AEC Contract
Administrator requesting that a refrigerator or cooling room be provided
for the photo laboratory on Parry Island, This cooling room was to have
a capacity of approximately 1,000 cubic feet and was to be used for film
storage at a temperature of 50° F. Request was made for determination of
relative economy of a standard walk-in refrigerator or a cooling room
with a separate cooling unit. Accordingly, a cost analysis was prepared

by the Holmes & Narver Estimating Department that indicated that economically there would be very little choice between a building constructed

in the field and a prefabricated, knockdown, walk-in refrigerator,

There-

fore, an aluminum-clad prefabricated refrigerator was procured for this

service.

The drawings for the photo laboratory building were revised to

show the refrigerator located outdoors adjoining the building and connected thereto by means of a lean-to passageway.
Facilities for freesing
Parry and Eniwetok Islands,
the bakery building on Parry
in the mess hall on Eniwetok

and hardening ice cream were provided on
A 20-quart capacity freezer was installed in
Island and two 10-quart capacity freezers
Island, These freezers were the direct ex-

pansion, flooded type, using freon as the refrigerant. Each of the 10quart freezers was mounted on a 60-gallon combination hardening and hold-

ing cabinet, which also contained the refrigeration condensing unit. The
e2Q-quart freezer was mounted on a cabinet housing a condensing unit, and
a separate 40-gallon hardening cabinet was provided adjacent to the freezer in the Parry Island bakery,
Im addition a 40-gallon ice cream holding

and dispensing cabinet was provided in the Parry Island mess hall, The
mess halls on Runit, Biijiri, and Japtan Islands were each provided with
a 30~gallon ice cream dispensing cabinet, and the mess hall on Engebi
Island with a 40-gallon dispensing cabinet. These islands were supplied
with ice cream from the freeser on Parry.

The criteria used for determination of ice cream freezing and storage
capacity were obtained from the Reconnaissance Report. It had been observed by the reconnaissance team that one gallon was used to serve eight

people at one meal. This generous allowance made it possible to continue
to serve ice cream after popluation loads had increased very greatly.
Chilled drinking water was provided in each mess hall by means of

refrigerated water coolers. These were self-contained units, equipped
with air-cooled refrigeration condensing units, housed in an aluminum

cabinet.

Cabinet tops and water cooling coils and storage tanks were 18-8

stainless steel, Each cooler was provided with a chrome plated carafe
filler and a bubbler and each cooler had a cooling capacity of 25 gallons
per hour and a storage capacity of 25 gallons. Fresh water was piped
directly to the coolers in all cases.

Because of the warm climate, the A-E-C-M Contractor was directed to

provide self-contained, electric, bubbler-type water coolers in all living
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