MR. STANWOOD was next introduced by DR. DUNHAM to discuss facilities
for long-term animal experiments.
MR. STANWOOD said there had been
some difficulty in obtaining legislation and this had
delayed some of the plans for expanding facilities.
DR. WARREN stated that he believed that there should be
ANIMAL
much more in the construction budget for the reason that
FACILITIES
universities throughout the country were faced with a
—
very rapidly increasing population to serve, and that
normal demands would mean that some research space would
probably be used for classroom laboratories.
For this
reason research support for colleges and universities would have to
be increased in greater proportion than would normally be required.
DR. BURNETT said that for the same reason it would probably be found
that $10,000 per man year would not be a realistic figure in the future
and that universities would not be able to participate in the research
program under these conditions.
DR. WARREN stated that a very strong
case should be made to keep the research program going.
DR. CANTRIL
asked if continuing investigation of inert uranium was productive and
DR. ELY replied that it was a five-year program with dogs and essentially
a radiological program.
There had not been much return on the first
two years of work.
DR. WARREN asked if there was anything new in the
mercury investigation.
DR. DUNHAM said that a literature search had
been started at Rochester and that the problem was important because of
the large operation at Oak Ridge involving the use of mercury which
present a difficult problem.
DR. BRUNER stated that the fans and
blowers necessary to keep the air concentration down to acceptable
level resulted in objectionable noise levels at the Oak Ridge Plant.
Item 12.
RESEARCH
PLANNING
(continued )
CANCER PROGRAM DR. CANTRIL expressed satisfaction with the
trend towards the shifting emphasis in the case of teletherapy.
It had initially been developed by the AEC but
had now been taken over by other agencies or
private sources.
He also spoke of Dr. Hempelmann's
report of leukemia centers in upstate New York.
Item 13.
INSTRUMENTATION AND DOSIMETRY - DR. DUNHAM said
that the Appropriations Committee had not
looked with favor on the small amount of the
budget devoted to dosimetry and instrumentation.
MR. JOHNSTON expressed the opinion that there was less need
now for supporting instrumentation development because it had
become 8 consumer product.
MR. MARINELLI asked if there were any film study contracts in effect and
MR. JOHNSTON replied that there was work going on at UCLA relating to
fallout films where the film is used to attempt te—-eetempt to assess
the beta hazards from fallout.
MR. MARINELLI mentioned previous work
done by Ansco with scintillators and film and that there were much
better scintillators available now.
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