(Monthly 3tatus Report, April, 1951) - 3 -
Biology & Medicine
Conference of Industrial Health Personnel
The first annual conference of Industrial Health Personnel of the
U.3.A.B.C. was held at Atlantic City on Friday, April 27, 1951.
The
Health and 3afety Division of the New York Uperations Office was the
host for the meeting.
attendance,
68 persons from 25 installations were in
The second annual meeting will be held in Cincinnati, Ohio on the
Monday imnediately preceding the American Industrial Hygiene Association
Meeting] All AEC and AKC-dontractor health personnel are urged to write
Brs. Felton or Morgan indicating topics that they would like discussed
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at next year's meeting. Drs. K. Z. Morgan and Jean Felton of ORNL have
agreed to be hosts at this meeting.
industrial Medicine Fellowships
Fellowghips have been informally offered to, and accepted by, eight
physicians. Pormal announcement will be withheld pending clearance and
determination of the schools at which these men will take their year of
academic training in industrial nedicine bezinning in the Fall of 1951.
Plans have been made for one physician to take his second or in-plant
year of training at ORNL, K-25, and ¥~-12 upon completion of his fellowship year at the University of Rochester,
Medical Fellowship TrainingCourses
. Arrangements have been nade to reactivate the medical fellowship
training courses at Duke Univarsity and Reed College. The Department of
Defense has been invited to send un to 10 students to the Duke University
course,
BIOPHYSICS BRANCH
_—- Tolerances
Members of the Branch met with representatives of the Reactor Development Division and Anolls Atomic Power Laboratory in connection with biological tolerances for neutrons and the effect such tolerances would have
on shielding needs for the Submarine Intermediate Reactor now being
developed at KAPL.
The group also considered the types and locations of
monitoring devices which will be required.
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