:
We had some up in Lake Ontario
and so we undertook to find out what happens
when you emelt the steel and we found, as
John Herley predicted, on chemicnl grounds
that the uranium went up into the slag and
the steel came out clean.
Ag a result of thie, the maes fer~
rous stock piles of the Commission were liquidated at a tremendous asving and all on the
basis of an experiment that cost about a
thoueand dollars,
Now, we are following that up with
similar surveys because we have tremendous
stook piles of nickel, copper, platinum and
other metale,
Ur, Kievin is going to tell
you about that,
course
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MR. PAUL BS. KLEVIN:
During the
of feed material production ef the
various A.E.C. production sites, large
emounts of equipment came in contact with
uranium bearing matertal.
When this equipment was teken out
of gervice either due to upsets or to disrepair, it was placed into a sorap category.
It was the policy of the A.E.C. not
ote
Dot
as
at
a.