and Perth Amboy a well-studied disaster plen,
RADTATICN INSTRUMENTS BRANCH.
Contract negotiations were consummated by the Washington Headquarters
Procurament Office with fow companies for civilian radiological defense
type monitoring instruments.
Five different types of instruments are being
procured at a total cost of $20,160. Delivery of twenty models of each type
is acheduled prior to January 1, 1951.
$41,000 has been allotted to the Oak Ridge Operations Office for use
by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in financing a contract with the
Raytheon Manufacturing Company for production engineering of a poeket—alsed
survey meter, This centract will be divided into two separate phases - the
improvement of presently available elestromter tubes ani the desigh of an
instrument proper. This instrument will be sensitive te alpha, beta and
gamaa radiation and will be calibrated from 1/100 to 100 roentgens per hour
with an indication accuracy in the order of plus or minus 15 to 30 per cent.
Development at the other Commission sites is continuing. Contracts
are being negotiated by both Brookhaven and New York for instrument component
development,
$56,000 was allotted to the Naval Radiological Defense Labora~
tory for 2 feasibility investigation of three additional types of radiological
monitors.
A conference on reactor instrumentation was held under the joint
sponserBhip of the Radiation Inetrunents Branch and the Atanic Power Division
of the Westinghouse Zlectric Cornoration at. Pittsburgh on June 5 and 4,
The conference, being the first scheduled on this type of instrumentation,
was very successfulyin disseminating information and resolving various reactor
instrumentation problems,
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