:

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

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