2004 General Activities on Department of Energy (DOE) 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.

2004 Data Search and Capture

DOE Office of Worker Advocacy
Germantown, MD

This data capture trip was intended to gather Environmental Measurements Laboratory (EML) documents that had been declassified. Twenty-five documents were scanned. Additional documents will be captured during a later visit.

This effort recovered information on the following DOE sites:

Work site and information retrieved
Work Sites
Battelle Memorial Institute
Electro Metallurgical
Lake Ontario Ordnance Works
Linde Ceramics Plant
Los Alamos National Laboratory

DOE Office of Worker Advocacy
Germantown, MD

The purpose of this data capture effort was to capture the remainder of the Environmental Measurements Laboratory (EML) records that were declassified and were not collected during the first trip in January 2004. Sixty-five folders were reviewed and 126 records were scanned.

This effort recovered information on the following DOE sites:

Work site and information retrieved
Work Sites
Aliquippa Forge
Hanford
Herring-Hall Marvin Safe Co.
Kellex/Pierpont
Lake Ontario Ordnance Works
Linde Ceramics Plant
Mallinckrodt Chemical Company
Middlesex Sampling Plant
SAM Laboratories, Columbia University

Atlanta Records Center
Atlanta, GA

The main purpose of this data capture effort was to collect records for the Pinellas Plant. Information for multiple facilities was retrieved. Ninety-seven boxes were located and 223 records were scanned.

This effort recovered information on the following DOE sites:

Work site and information retrieved
Work Sites
Ames Laboratory (Iowa State University)
Argonne National Laboratory
Baker & Williams Warehouses
Battelle Laboratories
Dana Heavy Water Plant
Du Pont Deepwater Works
Electro Metallurgical
Feed Materials Production Center
General Atomics
Grand Junction
Hanford
Herring-Hall Marvin Safe Co.
Kansas City Plant
Kellex/Pierpont
Linde Ceramics Plant
Lake Ontario Ordnance Works
Mallinckrodt Chemical Works
Middlesex Sampling Plant
Mound Plant
New Brunswick Laboratory
Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant (K-25)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (X-10)
Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant
Peek Street Facility (Knolls)
Pinellas Plant
Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant
Puerto Rico Nuclear Center
S-50 Oak Ridge Thermal Diffusion Plant
SAM Laboratories, Columbia University
Seymour Specialty Wire
University of California, Berkeley
Ventron Corp.
Weldon Spring Plant
Y-12 Plant

Atlanta Records Center
Atlanta, GA

The main purpose of this data capture effort was to collect records on the Pinellas Plant. Sixty-four boxes were retrieved and 169 records were scanned.

This effort recovered information on the following DOE sites:

Work site and information retrieved
Work Sites
Argonne National Laboratory
Mound Plant
Nevada Test Site
Pantex Plant
Pinellas Plant
Sandia National Laboratories

Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU)
Oak Ridge, TN

This effort was made to capture records located in the ORAU vault in Tennessee. Forty-six records were retrieved.

This effort recovered information on the following DOE sites:

Work site and information retrieved
Work Sites
Electro Metallurgical
Mallinckrodt Chemical Works
Middlesex Sampling Plant
Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant
Y-12 Plant

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Oak Ridge, TN

Ten documents were retrieved from ORNL during this data capture effort.

Mound Records Center
Miamisburg, OH

During this data capture effort, one box of records was located and ten documents were captured.

Mound Records Center
Miamisburg, OH

During this data capture effort, two boxes of information were reviewed and 65 documents were captured.

Atlanta Records Center
Dayton, OH

Sixty-five boxes of information were reviewed and 280 documents were captured during this data capture effort.

This effort recovered information on the following DOE site:

Work site and information retrieved
Work Sites
Pinellas Plant

Atlanta Records Center
Atlanta, GA

During this data capture effort, 117 boxes were reviewed and 178 documents were retrieved. Medical, environmental, facility processes, external dosimetry, internal dosimetry, and energy employee data were captured.

This effort recovered information on the following DOE sites:

Work site and information retrieved
Work Sites
Battelle Laboratories – King Avenue
Convair
Davison
Feed Materials Production Center (Fernald)
Harvard University
Linde Ceramics Plant
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mallinckrodt Chemical Co.
Metal Hydrides Corp.
Metallurgical Laboratory
Mound Plant
Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant (K-25)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (X-10)
Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant
Pinellas Plant
Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant
SAM Laboratories, Columbia University
Weldon Spring Plant
Y-12 Plant

Mound Records Center
Miamisburg, OH

Two boxes of information were reviewed and 23 documents were retrieved during this data capture effort. Various reports were captured.

Fernald Records Center
Fernald, OH

Documents entitled “Institutional History” and “Exposure Database” were captured during this data capture effort. Seven folders were reviewed and seven documents were retrieved.

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

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

Kansas City Records Center
Kansas City, MO

During this data capture effort, 25 boxes were reviewed and 60 documents were retrieved. The documents contain information on the types and quantities of various radioactive materials that were handled or processed at particular sites.

This effort recovered information on the following DOE sites:

Work site and information retrieved
Work Sites
Aliquippa Forge
Bridgeport Brass Co. (Adrian, MI)
Chapman Valve
Seymour Specialty Wire

Dayton Records Center
Dayton, OH

One box of dosimetry data spanning the years 1943 – 1948 was retrieved during this data capture effort.

This effort recovered information on the following DOE site:

Work site and information retrieved
Work Sites
Clinton Laboratories

Kansas City Records Center
Kansas City, MO

Eleven boxes were reviewed and approximately 110 documents were retrieved during this data capture effort. A majority of the documents contain information on the types and quantities of various radioactive materials that were handled or processed at particular sites and facility/process data.

This effort recovered information on the following DOE sites:

Work site and information retrieved
Work Sites
Bridgeport Brass Co.
Colonie Site (National Lead)
Feed Materials Production Center (Fernald)
Ledoux and Company
Linde
Mallinckrodt Chemical Co.
Weldon Spring Plant

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA

During this data capture effort, approximately 175 documents were retrieved containing various reports and data related to building operations.

This effort recovered information on the following DOE site:

Work site and information retrieved
Work Sites
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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 2019. 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.