OMB
Office of Management and Budget.
OPLAN
Operations Plan. An operations plan is standard within DOD to provide specific
guidance for conducting an approved major project. See CONPLAN.
ORNL
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN.
PACE
Pacific Cratering Experiments. Project included removal of soi] down to coral rock in
an area of 19 acres on the island of Sally.
PASO
Pacifie Area Support Office (of DOE/NV), Honolulu, Hawaii.
pci
Picocurie. 1 x 107!2 Curies.
pCi/g
Picocuries per gram.
PHA
Pulse Height Analyzer.
PGT
Princeton Gamma Tech, manufacturer of HPGe gamma ray detectors.
PIMM
Portable Instrument Maintenance Manual.
PLOWX
Plowing Experiment(site on Janet).
PM
Photomultiplier (tube).
PMEL
Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory (electronics technician).
PNL
Battelle - Pacific Northwest Laboratory.
Plutonium. Specifically, the isotopes 238py, 239pu, and 249Pu. Context may imply
the sum of these Pu isotopes.
QA
Quality Assurance.
QC
Quality Control.
Roentgen. A unit of exposure to ionizing radiation. It is that amount of gamma or X
rays required to produce ions carrying 1 electrostatic unit of electrical charge in one
cubic centimeter of dry air under standard conditions.
rad
Radiation absorbed dose. The basic unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation. One
rad is equal to the absorption of 100 ergs of radiation energy per gram of matter.
RADCON
Radiation Control.
RADLAB
Radiation Laboratory.
(Complex of trailers in which a radiation laboratory was
established and used by DOE and ERSP contractorsat EA.)
RCC
Radiation Control Committee (of the JTG).
REECO
Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company, Inc., operating contractor for the DOE
at NTS.
A special unit of dose equivalent. The dose equivalent in rems is numerically equal to
the absorbed dose in rads multiplied by the quality factor, the distribution factor, and
any other necessary modifying factors.
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