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reactor technology at Gatlinburg, Tennessee, from September 29 through October 1, Another,
on weak interactions, is to be held at Gatlinburg on October 27-29,
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. Atechnical information meeting on gas-cooled power reactors was scheduled for October 21—22 at Oak Ridge Nationa) Laboratory.
Tentative plans called for AEC-sponsored meetings to be held on test reactors, waste fission product recovery, and industrial uses of radioisotopes,
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Leasing of ‘Heavy Water
The policy to lease heavy water for use in domestic and foreign research, medical, and
testing reactors was announced by the AEC on August 15. Previous transactions In heavy water were primarily ona sales basis. The policy provides operators of these types of reactors
with the choice of leasing heavy water at a charge of 4 percent per year of the sales price, or
of purchasing the heavy water at $28 per pound, The heavy water is to be leased in quantities
of one short ton or morefor the initial inventory requirement of the reactor. Leasing of heavy
water would permit the reduction of the initial capital outlay for these types of reactors.
Access Permit Program
During the July-September quarter 48 new applications for access permits were received,
compared with 55 in the preceding quarter. On September 30 there were 1,419 access permits
. in effect. About 59 percent of the permits were issued for access to Secret—Restricted Data.
Of the 1,003 permits due to expire by September 30, 81 percent had been renewed.
ISOTOPE DEVELOPMENT
; Food Irradiation Facility
In July a contract was signed with the Curtiss-Wright Corporation to design, develop, and
test operate a cobalt 60 High Intensity Food Irradiator (HI-FI). The HI-FI is to be completed
in the summer of 1960 at the U. S. Army Ionizing Radiation Center at Lathrop, California.
About 2,000,000 curies of cobalt 60 are to be produced at Savannah River for the facility.
Cobalt 60 test slugs were being irradiated at Savannah River to develop source parameters.
A temporary irradiation facility was established at Savannah River to exable the United
States Army Quartermaster Corps to perform that phase of its food irradiation project concerned with long-term feeding of animals. The facility uses spent fuel elements as radiation
sources to sterilize food with doses of 3 to 6 megarads, andis capable of producing 10 tcns of
irradiated food per month. Irradiation of food was begun on July 9.
Advisory Committee on Isotope and Radiation Development
An Acvisory Committee on Isotope and Radiation Development was established to advise
the AEC on suchactivities as (1) the developmentof practical industrial uses of radioisotopes
and high-level radiation, (2) the encouragement of private production of radioisotopes, and
(3} the assistance required by industrial personnel to obtain technological training for practical applicetions of radioisotopes.
DOE ARCHIVES
Meeting on High-Level Radiation
A meeting was held in August with AEC contractors to coordinate efforts in determining
present and future prospects for the application of high-level radiation, the technical and man-
agerial problems peculiarto the applications of high-level rediation, and the power end types
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