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2009 General Activities on Atomic Weapons Employer (AWE) Cases

DCAS will reconstruct radiation doses by evaluating all appropriate data relevant to which an individual worker or group of workers have been exposed, particularly when radiation monitoring data are unavailable, incomplete, or of poor quality. The data used for the dose reconstructions will be obtained through requests sent to DOE and data search and capture efforts.

DCAS along with Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), the contractor hired to support NIOSH's responsibilities under the Act, have been involved in data search and capture efforts. These efforts are being conducted at various DOE sites and federal and private records storage locations throughout the United States to retrieve radiation monitoring data needed to conduct dose reconstructions.

Archive

2009 Data Search and Capture

Curtiss-Wright, Electro-Mechanical Division
Cheswick, PA

During this data capture trip, various logbooks and finding aids were reviewed for Westinghouse Nuclear Fuels Division. Fifty-three documents, 4 finding aids, and 86 microfilm cartridges were retrieved. Personnel external exposure information (1968-1983) was retrieved.

No data search and capture activities have been found for this month.

Curtiss-Wright, Electro-Mechanical Division
Cheswick, PA

During this data capture trip, various logbooks and finding aids were reviewed for Westinghouse Nuclear Fuels Division. Fifty-three documents, 4 finding aids, and 86 microfilm cartridges were retrieved. Personnel external exposure information (1968-1983) was retrieved.

Kansas Federal Records Center
Lenexa, KS

During a second data capture trip to the Kansas Federal Records Center in March, 75 boxes of information were reviewed and 148 documents were retrieved for numerous work sites.

Work Site Information Retrieved
Aliquippa Forge Scope of work
Colonie Site TLD environmental reports, scope of work, surface contamination survey, instruction guide
Latty Avenue Properties TLD environmental reports
Linde Ceramics Plant Scope of work
Maywood Chemical Works TLD environmental reports, scope of work, ground water samples, soil samples, gamma borehole logging, radon and thoron data, bioassay results
Middlesex Municipal Landfill TLD environmental reports, personal TLD badges and exposure reports, water analysis
Painesville Site Bioassay results, water and soil samples
Rare Earths/ W.R. Grace TLD environmental reports, bioassay urine samples, air particulate samples
St. Louis Airport Storage Site (SLAPS) Scope of work, walkover gamma scan, bioassay results, air sample data, area surveys with maps

Westinghouse Electric Company (Hematite Facility)
Hematite, MO

The following information was retrieved for United Nuclear Corporation: airborne sample data and incidents, bioassay results, clean air act compliance information, daily air sample reports, external exposure (1961-2008), fundamentals of radiation protection, gamma counter calibration, groundwater monitoring, health physics manuals, individual whole body counts, licenses, list of materials for on-site burial, numerous site photos, radiological and criticality inspections, radiological surveys, site audits, soil sample results, stack exhaust samples, waste description, weekly progress reports, and various incident reports. Sixty-three boxes of information were reviewed and 414 documents were retrieved.

Kansas Federal Records Center
Lenexa, KS

Ninety-eight boxes of information were reviewed and 189 documents were retrieved for numerous work sites during this data capture trip.

Work Site Information Retrieved

Ashland Oil

Environmental sample results

Bliss & Laughlin Steel

 Direct surface and transferable contamination survey report, air sampling radon daughters report, radiological survey of the exterior portions of the site

Chapman Valve

Radiological sample log book

Combustion Engineering

Revised decommissioning plan, environmental reports (1994 through the first quarter of 1996)

Du Pont Deepwater Works

Air particulate sample and reporting, bioassay sample routing log

Latty Avenue Properties

Hazelwood interim storage annual environmental reports

Linde Ceramics Plant

Bioassay results, air monitoring reporting, radon sample results, personnel radiological contamination reports

Maywood Chemical Works

TLD occupational radiation exposure report

Painesville Site

Air sampling data, gamma exposure data, bioassay sample results

Shpack Landfill

Exposure records and bioassay sample results
St. Louis Airport Storage Site (SLAPS)

Radiological sample logbook, site suitability, environmental report calendar, TLD occupational radiation exposure reports

Ventron Corp.

Sample collection logbook

Westinghouse Electric Company (Hematite Facility)
Hematite, MO

Fifty-nine boxes of information were reviewed and 100 documents were retrieved for the United Nuclear Corporation.

Information Recovered Years
In-vivo counts 1969; 1974-1980
Environmental water analysis 1976-1977
Daily air sample record (DASRs), lapel samples and contamination surveys 1978, 1994
Nuclear material transaction reports 1979-1988
Exposure summary and air sample data 1991-1992
Samples of employee cumulative exposure report 1992
Samples selected of effluent releases 1995-1996
Samples selected of accident reports 1969-1970
Average stack loss 1978-1982
Samples selected of contamination and radiation surveys 1992
Effluent monitoring reports 1978-1988
Exposure information 1977, 1979, 1982 and 1994
Samples of J.A. Rode summary reports 1975-1980’s
Samples of Maine Yankee reports 1970-1971
Newspaper article on buried items –
Retention pond data –
Decommissioning plan –

No data search and capture activities have been found for this month.

No data search and capture activities have been found for this month.

Nevada Test Site Records Center
Las Vegas, NV

Eighteen boxes of information were reviewed and 68 documents were retrieved during this data capture effort. License SNM-7 material was retrieved for the Battelle Laboratories sites (King Avenue and West Jefferson).

No data search and capture activities have been found for this month.

No data search and capture activities have been found for this month.

No data search and capture activities have been found for this month.

No data search and capture activities have been found for this month.

No data search and capture activities have been found for this month.

Memorandum of Understanding Between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Energy

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and DOE signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Fiscal Year 2010. The MOU describes how the Agencies will work together to carry out their responsibilities under The Act and Executive Order 13179. Part of the agreement covers how HHS and DOE will coordinate data search and capture activities.

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