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, US DOE ARCHIVES 326 U.S. ATOMICENERCY COMMISSION RG DOE HISTORIAN Collection Box 3363 c | 7 (08/1) | (32 Folder */7 Gro 16—55741-} OFFICED |_ SURNAM EP DATE >» £ | DO® ARCHIVES