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it would be to provide a Field C.nsulting
Service to
these small plants and an analytical
and instrument faoility to assist them on those
phases of radiological health program.
The Laboratory was put in New York
because this was the headquarters of the old
Medison Square Office of the Manhattan District
and later of the New York Operations Office of
the Atomic Energy Commiseion whose original
function was to procure materials for the
piles for the diffusions plants at Oak Ridge
for Los Alamosa,
During the war we vrocessed all of the
urenium in plants operated out of this office,
procured the uranium from the mines that was
bought for this country} processed it for Oak-
Ridge and slugs for Hanford,
We procured the beryllium or thorium
and so on, including such things as uranium,
heavy water, tritium and the other basis
materials of the Atomio Energy Prorram,.
Row, the program that we are going
to precent today is Lliustrative of the program of the Laboratory as it exists now.
The current program has always got
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