THE MUSEUM  LIBRARY

Accidents

What Has Happened to the Survivors of the Early Los Alamos Nuclear Accidents? LA-UR-79-2802

A Review of Criticality Accidents. McLaughlin et al. LA 13638. 2000.

Radiation Doses in the Pajarito Accident of May 21, 1946. LA-687. 1948

The Radiological Accident in Chochabamba  - IAEA Report

The Radiological Accident in Gilan  - IAEA Report

The Radiological Accident in Goiania  - IAEA Report

The Radiological Accident at the Irradiation Facility at Nesvizh  - IAEA Report

The Radiological Accident in Istanbul  - IAEA Report

The Radiological Accident in Lilo  - IAEA Report

The Radiological Accident in the Reprocessing Plant in Tomsk  - IAEA Report

The Radiological Accident in Samet Prakarn  - IAEA Report

The Radiological Accident in San Salvador  - IAEA Report

The Radiological Accident in Soreq  - IAEA Report

The Radiological Accident in Tammiku  - IAEA Report

The Radiological Accident in Yanango  - IAEA Report

Civil Defense  -  Booklets for Public

Current Status of Civil Defense in Schools - With Guidelines for Action. MP-35. June 1966.

Facts About Fallout Protection.  L-18. April 1958. 

Fallout Protection for Homes with Basements. H-12 (revised). May 1967.

Fallout Protection. What to Know and Do About Nuclear Attack.  H-6. December 1961.

In Time of Emergency. A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack - Natural Disasters. H-14.OCD 1968.

School Boards Plan for Civil Defense. MP-31. August 1965.

Survival Under Atomic Attack. 1950.

Ten for Survival - Surviving Nuclear Attack   OCDM 1959.

What You Should Know About the National Plan for Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization. OCDM. 1958.

Civil Defense - Instrument Manuals

CD V-700 Model 2 (VICCO 661). Victoreen. Instruction Manual.  

CD V-700 Model 3. International Pump. Instruction Book and Maintenance Manual.

CD V-700 Model 4. Universal Atomics. Instruction and Maintenance Manual.

CD V-700 Model 5. Anton. Instruction and Maintenance Manual.

CD V-700 Model 6. Anton. Instruction and Maintenance Manual.

CD V-700 Model 6 and Model 6A. Victoreen. Instruction and Maintenance Manual.

CD V-700 Model 6B. Victoreen. Instruction and Maintenance Manual.

CD V-700 Model 6B. Electro-Neutronics Inc. Instruction and Maintenance Manual.

CD V-700 Model 6B.  Lionel. Instruction and Maintenance Manual.

CD V-705 Model 1.  Jordan Electronics. Instruction and Maintenance Manual. Loudspeaker. 

CD V-705 Model 2. University Sound. Instruction and Maintenance Manual. 

CD V-710 Model 2. Jordan Electronics. Operating and Maintenance Instructions.

CD V-710 Model 3. Victoreen. Instruction Manual.

CD V-710 Model 4. Jordan Electronics. Operating and Maintenance Instructions.

CD V-710 Model 5. Victoreen. Instruction Manual.

CD V-710 and CD V-720 Operability Steps and Checks

CD V-711 Model 1. Jordan Electronics. Operating and Maintenance Instructions.

CD V-711 Mk III Schematic from CPG 4-1, Volume 6 Change 1. September 1985.

CD V-715 Model 1. Lionel Electronic Laboratories. Instruction and Maintenance Manual.

CD V-715 Model 1a.  Landers, Frary and Clark. Instruction and Maintenance Manual.

CD V-715 Model 1A. Victoreen. Instruction and Maintenance Manual.

CD V-715 Model 1B. Victoreen. Instruction and Maintenance Manual.

CD V-717 Model 1. Victoreen. Instruction and Maintenance Manual.

CD V-720 Model 1. Chatham. Instruction Manual.

CD V-720 Model 2. Victoreen. Instruction Manual.

CD V-720 Model 3.  Landers, Frary and Clark. Instruction Book and Maintenance Manual.

CD V-720 Model 3A. Victoreen. Instruction and Maintenance Manual.

CD V-727 Victoreen. Instruction and Maintenance Manual.

CD V-736, 746 and 756 - Bendix Family Radiation Measurement Kit. Instruction and Maintenance Manual.

CD V-750 Model 1. Jordan Electronics. Operating and Maintenance Instructions.

CD V-750 Model 3. Universal Atomics. Operating and Maintenance Instructions. 

CD V-750 Model 5. Bendix. Instruction and Maintenance Manual.

CD V-750 Model 5a.  Jordan Electronics. Instruction and Maintenance Manual.

CD V-750 Model 5b.  Jordan Electronics. Instruction and Maintenance Manual.

CD V-750 Model 5b. Bendix. Instruction and Maintenance Manual.

CD V-750 Model 5b. Industrial Electronic Hardware Corp. Operating and Maintenance Instructions.

CD V-750 Model 6. Operation Manual for CDV 750 Model 6 Dosimeter Charger

CD V-757 Model 1. Instruction and Maintenance Manual. Barrier Shielding Demonstration Set.

CD V-765. Operating Manual for the CD V-765 Gamma Radiation Transfer Standard. OCD.

CD V-781 Model 1. Nuclear Chicago Corp. Operators Instruction Manual.

CD V-787. Standard Item Specification. March 1957. Revised 1962.

CD V-794. Model 2. Technical Operations Inc. OCD Item No. CD V-794 Model 2 Radiological Instrument Calibrator.

CD V-797 Model 1. Nuclear Chicago Corp. Instruction and Maintenance Manual. Radiological Instrument Calibrator.

CD V-798 Model 1. American Machine and Foundary Co. Instruction and Maintenance Manual - Radiological Survey Meter Calibrator.

CD V-799 Model 1. Operating Manual for the CDV-799 Model 1 Electronic Calibrator.

New Civil Defense Geiger Mueller Tube, Lionel 301/OCD 101. 1964.

Civil Defense - General Publications

16 CFR 232. Guides for Advertising Radiation Monitoring Instruments. 1982. At one time, there were U.S. Federal regulations regarding "the advertising of instruments, devices, or other products which are represented in any manner to be of use to the general public for detecting or measuring fallout radiation."

Advisory Bulletin Number 229. Interim Procedures for Maintenance of Radiological Instruments. OCDM. January 1959.

American Civil Defense 1945 - 1984 FEMA 107. July 1986.

Civil Defense Radiological Monitoring Instruments Specifications. December 1950. FCDA. (courtesy of Nick Studer)

CPG 1-30. Guide for the Design and Development of a Local Radiological Defense Support System. FEMA. June 1981.

CPG 2-2. Use of Civil Defense Radiological Instruments for Peacetime Radiological Emergencies. September 1991.

CPG 2-6.1.  Radiological Defense Preparedness. April 1978.

CPG 2-6.4. Radiation Safety in Shelters. FEMA. September 1983.

CPG 3-1. Radiological Instruments: An Essential Resource for National preparedness. September 1986.

CPG 4-1. Volume I. Obsolete Radiological Instruments.  September 1985.

Criteria for Radiation Instruments for Use by the General Public. October 1962.

FG-E-5.9. Handbook for Radiological Monitors. April 1963.

FG-E-5.9.1. Handbook for Aerial Radiological Monitors. July 1966.

Handbook for Radiological Defense Education. - For use by schools receiving the CD V-755 "High School Kit." OCDM. January 1959.

H-16. Shelter Management Handbook. March 1978.

IG-3-2. Basic Course for Civil Defense. Instructor's Guide. FCDA. February 1955.

IG 11.21.  Practical Application and Use of Civil Preparedness Radiological Instruments.  Instructor Guide. January 1969.

MP-30. Civil Defense 1965. OCD. April 1965.

MP-72. How to Use Your Radiological Instruments (Survey Meter and Dosimeter) to Find the Best Shelter and to Minimize Your Exposure to Radiation. August 1976.

Radiological Monitoring Instruments and Equipment (For Civil Defense Operations). Office of Civil Defense. 1963.

SM-11.21.1 Radiological Monitoring Student Workbook. Office of Civil Defense. May 1963. 

SM 81. Fundamentals Course for Radiological Monitors. FEMA. September 1981.

TB-5-3. Technical Bulletin. Family Shelters for Protection Against Radioactive Fallout. May 1958.

TB-8-1. Technical Bulletin. Blast Damage from Nuclear Weapons of Larger Sizes. February 1955. Reprinted October 1958.

TB-11-1. Technical Bulletin. Emergency Exposures to Nuclear Radiation. Revised August 1956. Reprinted October 1958.

TB-11-2. Technical Bulletin. Personal Dosimeters for Radiological Defense. April 1952.

TB-11-8. Technical Bulletin. Permissible Emergency Levels of Radioactivity in Water and Food. December 1952. Reprinted October 1958.

TB-11-9. Technical Bulletin. Emergency Measurements of Radioactivity in Food and water. December 1952. Reprinted October 1958.

TB-11-19. Technical Bulletin. Protection Against Fallout Radiation. September 1955. Reprinted October 1958. 

TB-11-20. Technical Bulletin. Radiological Instruments for Civil Defense. September 1955. Reprinted October 1958.

TB-11-20. Technical Bulletin. Radiological Instruments for Civil Defense. September 1955. Revised June 1959.

TB-11-21. Technical Bulletin. Fallout and the Winds. October 1955. Revised February 1956. Reprinted 1958.

TB-11-22. Technical Bulletin. Radiation Physics and Bomb Phenomenology. Revised June 1956.

TB-11-24. Technical Bulletin. Medical Aspects of Nuclear Radiation. July 1956. Reprinted October 1958.

TR-90. Fallout Exposure Rate Prediction Tables. May 1989.

Consumer Products - Radioactive

Systematic Radiological Assessment of Exemptions for Source and Byproduct Materials. NUREG 1717. June 2002.

Elements

The New Element Americium (Atomic Number 95). Seaborg, James, Morgan. AECD-2185. 1948.

The New Element Curium (Atomic Number 96).  Seaborg, James and Ghorso. AECD-2182 1948.

The New Element Berkelium (Atomic Number 97).  Thompson, Ghiorso and Seaborg. AECD-2880, UCRL 669. 1950.

The New Element Californium (Atomic Number 98).  Thompson, Street, Ghiorso and Seaborg. UCRL 760. 1950.

The First Weighing of Plutonium. Seaborg. 1967.

Transuranium Elements: A Half Century. Seaborg. LBL 29445. 1990.

GM Tube Data

Victoreen Tubes (1B85, 6306, EP70G/5980, EP72M/7616, EP70M/5979, EP74)

History - General

Glossary of Hanford Terminology. Lane. 1961. An excellent summary of the code names used in the early days of the nuclear business. (Courtesy of Dan Strom)

Health Physics, Instrumentation, and Radiation Protection. Parker. MDDC-783. 1947.

Note on the Origin of the Term "Barn". Baker and Holloway. LAMS-523. 1944.

Origin of the Radiation Warning Symbol - Paul Frame

Permissible Doses Conference Held at Chalk River Canada - meeting minutes.  R.M.-10. 1949.(Courtesy of Dan Strom)

The Tripartite Conferences on Radiation Protection. Canada, United Kingdom, United States (1949-1953).  Taylor. NVO-271 (DE84016028). USDOE. 1984. (Courtesy of Dan Strom).

Tolerance Dose.  Cantril. MDDC-1100. 1945. (Courtesy of Dan Strom).

Why Did They Call It That?   -  The Origin of Selected Radiological and Nuclear Terms - by Paul Frame

Instrument Manuals

EMI Electronics. Portable Contamination Monitor Type 1.

Jordan Electronics Models AGB-1-SR, AGB-10-SR, and AGB-10K-Sr - Jordan Electronics

Jordan Electronics Model AGB-10G-SR

Nuclear Research Corp. Model SM-5A Instruction Manual for Radiation Survey Meter.

Technical Associates Models SRJ-7 and HRJ-7 Juno Survey Meters

Victoreen Fallout Detection Meter. Model 61720. Instruction and Maintenance Manual. 

Victoreen Model 241 (?) - Victoreen Ion Chamber  see instrument by clicking here

Victoreen Model 247A - Victoreen Ion Chamber Survey Meter

Victoreen Model 263A. Victoreen Instrument Company. 1947.

Victoreen Model 300 Proteximeter  - Victoreen Instrument Company. 1947.

 Instrumentation 

Alpha Counters as Used in Radioassay of Plutonium. Chadwick. MDDC-454. 1946.

A Ten Channel Pulse Height Analyzer. Dexter. LAMS-573. 1947.

Boron Trifluoride Neutron Detector for Low Neutron Intensities. Segre, Weigand. LA Report 108. MDDC-183. 1944

Conduction of Electricity Through Gases - Tomson, 1906

Construction of a Hand-Contamination Counter and Radiation Monitor. Watts. LAMS-153. MDDC-1639.  1944.

Counting Rate Meter Based on a Design by MIT. Sternberg. MDDC-766. 1946.

"Cutie Pie," A Portable Radiation Instrument. Ballou. MDDC-997. 1945.

Design and Construction of the "Pee Wee" Portable Proportional Alpha Survey Meter. LAMS-740. Larkins 1948.

Electricity in Gases - Townsend, 1915

Flat Response Neutron Detector. Hanson. LAMS-66. 1944.

Instrument Work in an Atomic Energy Laboratory. Fisher. MDDC-1059.1947.

Instruments. Esler. 1946.

Instruments of Operation Crossroads. De Ment. The Military Engineer. XXXIX. 1947.

Investigation of Proportional Counters. LA-74. 1944.

Limitations and Past Applications of the Cloud Chamber. Haring. MLM-283. 1949.

List of Classified Documents on Radiation Instrumentation. Haywood. 1947.

Los Alamos Health Group Film Badge Procedures. Buckland. LAMS-620. 1947.

Manufacturing Specifications for the Portable GM Tube Survey Meter. Dorsey. MDDC-805. 1944.

Model 100 Counting Rate Meter. Gallagher and Sands. MDDC-1297. 1946.

Model 200 Pulse Counter. Higinbotham, Gallagher, and Sands. 1946.

Multiple Wire Proportional Counter. Diven, Thompson. LA-73. MDDC-99. 1944.

Photographic Film as a Pocket Radiation Dosimeter.  Pardue, Goldstein and Wollan. MDDC-1065. 1944.

Piling Up of Counts. Serber. LA-13. 1943.

Pocket Radiation Alarm. P.R. Bell. MDDC-1180. 1947.

Practical Measurements in Radio-activity - Makower, Geiger, 1912

Progress Report on Project Authorization CMR-12-3, Floor Monitor (Sweepy). Eberline. 1947.

Progress Report on Project Authorization CMR-12-4, Alpha Monitoring Instrument (Poppy) for Salvage. Eberline. 1947.

Pulse Height Analyzer - Model A. Froman, Higinbotham, and Rossi. LA-114. 1944.

Radioactive Threshold Detectors for Neutrons. Taschek. LA-211. MDDC-360. 1946.

Recoil Proportional Counter. LA-166. 1944.

Relative Sensitivities of Some Organic Compounds for Scintillation Detectors. Taschek. LAMS-706. 1948.

Report on Health Instruments - Model 263 Victoreen Instrument Company. Walsh. LAMS-847. 1949.

Report on the Radiological Instruments Used at Crossroads. Paul. 1946.

Spherical Proportional Counter. LA-123. 1944.

Theory of Ion Chambers. Snyder. LA-484. MDDC-485. 1945.

Theory of Neutron Counters Using Proton Recoils from Paraffin. LA-222. 1945.

 Manhattan Project

The First Reactor. DOE/NE-0046. 1982.

The Manhattan Project - Making of the Atomic Bomb. Gosling. DOE/MA 0001. 1999.

Manhattan District History - Nonscientific Aspects of  Los Alamos Project Y. 1942 through 1946. LA-5200. March 1973.

Project Trinity

Trinity. Bainbridge. LA-1012. 1947.

Oral Histories

Cohn, Waldo

Eisenbud, Merrill

Gamertsfelder, Carl

Gofman, John

Healy, John

Lushbaugh, Clarence

Morgan, Karl

Voelz, George

Physics

Neutron Physics. A Revision of I. Halpern's Notes on E. Fermi's Lectures in 1945. AECD-2664. 1951.

Particle Physics. A Los Alamos Primer. LA-1.

Radioactivity - General

Chemical Effects of Alpha Particles and Electrons  - Lind, 1921

Chemistry of the Radio-elements - Soddy, 1914

Electrical Nature of Matter and Radioactivity - Jones, 1906

Interpretation of Radium, and the Structure of the Atom - Soddy, 1920

Matter and Energy - Soddy, 1911

Radio-active Substances - Curie, 1904

Radio-activity - Rutherford, 1905

Radioactive Substances: Their Properties and Behaviour - Makower, 1906

Radioactive substances and their radiations - Rutherford, 1913

Radioactive Transformations - Rutherford, 1906

Studies in Radioactivity - Bragg, 1912

Radionuclides

Isotope Chart (High Atomic Number End). Segre. LAMS-271. 1945.

Radium

Quincy X-ray and Radium Laboratories. 1942-1943 Catalogue. Improved Swanberg, No. 5, No. 6, No. 7, No. 8 & No. 9. Silver , Adjustable, Utero-Vaginal, Radium Applicators.

Quincy X-ray and Radium Laboratories. Swanberg Improved Adjustable Uterine Applicator. ca. 1940.

Radium - Abstracts of Selected Articles on Radium and Radium Therapy. United States Radium Corporation, 1922.

Radium Explained. Hampson, 1905.

Radium and other Radioactive Substances; Polonium, Actinium and Thorium. Hammer, 1903.

Radium Chemical Company, Inc. Radium - Radon. ca. 1950s.

Radium Company of Colorado. Catalog of Radium Applicators, Screens and Accessories. 1921.

Radium in Humans. A Review of U.S. Studies. Rowland. ANL/ER-3. 1994.

Radium and Radio-active Substances - Their Application Especially to Medicine. Baskerville, 1905.

Radium and Radioactivity. Abee, 1904.

Radium Therapy. Simpson, 1922.

X-ray and Radium Industries Limited. Catalog of Catalog of Radium and Accessory Equipment for Modern Radium Therapy. ca. 1950.

Tales from the Atomic Age

The following "Tales from the Atomic Age" originally appeared in the Health Physics Society Newsletter. Although they are written in a story format, I did my best to ensure the accuracy of all the information contained in them - Paul Frame

Alsos and the Nazi Thorium

Discovery of Francium

Fermi Strikes Gold and Hevesy Invents Neutron Activation Analysis  

Four Tales of George de Hevesy

František Behounek and the Burst Balloon  

How the Curie Came to Be 

In the Groove - a story about radium hounds

It Belonged to Wollan    -  a story about Ernest Wollan, the first "Health Physicist"

It Came Out of Niels Bohr's Nuclear Well

Jachymov:  Cradle of the Atomic Age

James Acord: Artist-in-Residence of the Atomic Age 

Pigs in Uniform

Radioactive Curative Devices and Spas - a story about radioactive quack cures

Robley Evans in the Wild West

The Legend of Emil H. Grubbe

The Tale of the Hanford Sheep

U-234 - the story of the German U-boat U-234.

Wilhelm Rontgen and the Invisible Light

William Crookes and the Spectral Visitor

William Crookes and the Turbulent Luminous Sea -  a story about the spinthariscope

X-Rays

Elementary and Dental Radiography - Raper, 1918

Medical electricity and Rontgen rays - Tousey, 1921

Practical Application of the Röntgen Rays in Therapeutics and Diagnosis - Pusey, 1903

Principles and Practice of Roentgenological Technique - Hirsch, 1919

Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery - Williams, 1903

Rontgen rays and electro-therapeutics - Kassabian, 1907

Röntgen Rays: Memoirs by Röntgen, Stokes, and J. J. Thomson  -  Rontgen, Stokes, Thomson, 1899

Text-book of radiology (X-rays) - Morton, 1918

X Rays - Kaye, 1918

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