ML20023A653
| ML20023A653 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | 07000278 |
| Issue date: | 12/24/1958 |
| From: | Beamer W DOW CHEMICAL CO. |
| To: | Johnson L US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
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| ML20023A417 | List: |
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| FOIA-82-298 NUDOCS 8210180424 | |
| Download: ML20023A653 (2) | |
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Docket No.70-278
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Dear Mr. Johnson:
Your letter of December 19, 1958 raised a question about I
the use of the Radiation Protection Manual of The Dow Cheinical Company.
This manual may be made available for public inspection.
Our purpose in including the disclaimer clause on the back of the title page is two-fold (1) to prevent possible liability to our company due to use by persons outside the c.ompany of the safety precautions recommended in the manual; (2) to prevent indiscriminate outside circulation of an internal company publication.
This manual is supplied to all persons who use or come in contact with potential radiation hazards at the Midland location of The Dow Chemical Company.
In submitting it in support of our license application we do not feel that we are recommending these procedures or health protection measures to other groups.
I am sending under separate cover two additional copies of b jthe manual to complete your files for our special nuclear i
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materials license.
I should like to present another question on licensing, We are sending small amounts of uranium metal (O;6 gram samples) to B,rookhaven National Laboratory for short periods of reactor irradiation (on the order of 2 hours2.314815e-5 days <br />5.555556e-4 hours <br />3.306878e-6 weeks <br />7.61e-7 months <br /> at neutron flux of 10 3 1
neutrona/sq cm/sec.)
We have supplied Brookhaven with copies of our source materials license for granium and thorium and also by-product materials license for elements of atomic number 3 to 83 We have also obtained irradiation of small samples of other metals such as cerium.
We feel these irradiations have been adequately covered by the by-product 1
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whether our present licenses adequately cover the irradiated uranium.
Will you please advise us on this?
Very truly yours, William H. Beamer, Member Radiation Hazards Committee i
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