Files -2- January 29, 1953 Collison seems to be a competent man but suffers from the lack of experience. He is one of the military three-year graduates of the nuclear physics course but apparently has had limited experience in radiological safety during weapons tests. I believe the meeting was somewhat of an eye-opener for him in respect to the many varied preblems associated with operating the RadSafe unit at NPG. Radiological safety for Desert Rock troups will be handled as an independent activity under the leadership of a Major Cook who will be stationed permanently at Desert Rock. They will even process their own film badges separately in a trailer truck (Hartgering indicated to me informally that he understood the DOD had approved a 10-roentgen dose for military participants during UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE). One of their big problems is manpower. They will just be able to meet their requirements for UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE, In this connection there was some discussion about the Military's continuing to operate RadSafe on a permanent basis. Again, the problem hinges on their ability to meet future personnel demands. Collison is planning to have about twelve two-men teams for off-site monitoring. Hartgering and Lulejian strongly recommended that this number be increased to provide adequate coverage of such a large area. Since this off-site monitoring directly affects AEC and its public relations, I seconded this recommendation. All of the necessary instruments are not on hand; specifically, there is a shortage of GM meters and 0-5 r personnel dosimeters. The latter coulda be borrowed from Los Alamos but Collison indicated a reluctance to do so. At this point Collison expressed some fears as to the role that Los Alamos might play in their relations with the operations of the RadSafe unit. Specifically, he did not wish tec be placed in the position of having his organization "inspected" by members of H-Division. The group as a whole, however, did not feel that Collison needed to worry about this relationship. AFSWP is still quite unhappy about the organization of the off-site monitoring which will be under William Johnson of Los Alamos, They feel that AEC has asked them to do a job (operate the RadSafe unit) and that they should have a completely free hand in meeting their responsibilities so long as the information required by AEC was obtained to the latter's satisfaction. I think I am expressing adequately their opinion by stating that they would prefer to do the whole RadSafe job, including the off-site monitoring. This is in contradiction somewhat to their admitted problem of finding a sufficient number of personnel to carry on the RadSafe operations other than off-site monitoring. They are not in DOS ARCHIVES