Radiation control program at the Donald W. Douglas Laboratories
- ed.
From third Health Physics Society midyear topical symposium; Los Angeles, California, USA (29 Jan 1969). See CONF-690103P1. The McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company built and operates the Donald W. Douglas Laboratories at Richland, Washington. The 57,600 ft/sup 2/ facility is located on a 112 acre site. One wing of this multipurpose laboratory houses a radioisotope laboratory and a composite fuels laboratory. The problem of two years of operation of the hot laboratory and fuels research laboratory is discussed. To limit the accident potertial, a radioactive storage building is utilized. Materials are stored in sealed containers. The procedural control of the inventory is illustrated. Disposal of high specific activity waste has posed some unique problems. Single swabs can contain more than 100 curies. An agreement with the State of Washington licensing agency and the waste disposal company permits shipment of waste. Radiation dosimetry for /sup 147/Pm and its associated 66 KeV gamma has been difficult. The angular dependence of the film dosimeter is shown where there is a distributed source causing an error of a factor 3 in the dosimetry. The solution to this problem is shown. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Douglas Labs., Richland, WA
- NSA Number:
- NSA-29-030199
- OSTI ID:
- 4329829
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 3. Health Physics Society midyear topical symposium, Los Angeles, California, USA, 29 Jan 1969; Other Information: See CONF-690103--P1. Orig. Receipt Date: 30-JUN-74; Related Information: Health physics operational monitoring. Vol. 1.
- Country of Publication:
- Country unknown/Code not available
- Language:
- English
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