Word: oakes
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...December 1948, the manager of the federal Oak Ridge weapons plant in Tennessee recommended to the AEC's advisory committee that workers quitting the weapons program be told if they had exceeded the government's own daily radiation exposure limits and that medical aid be given if a former worker developed a radiation-related illness, the Glenn report said...
...mystery was great enough to disturb even the most jaded cold warrior. Somewhere between Oak Ridge, Tenn., and two manufacturers in England, a total of five grams (0.175 oz.) of radioactive tritium had vanished without a trace. What made the disappearance especially alarming was that the quantity of tritium involved was sufficient, when combined with other ingredients, to build a small nuclear weapon. The U.S. Department of Energy, sensitive to the dangers of nuclear proliferation, last July halted U.S. sales of the gas and moved quickly to explain the losses and assure the public that the missing tritium...
...tritium in question followed a circuitous route that began at the Savannah River weapons plant. The vast majority of the plant's tritium output ; was purified and stored for use in nuclear warheads. But some 300 grams (10.5 oz.) a year was sent to Oak Ridge, where it was packaged in uranium sponge and sold for commercial use -- primarily as a radioactive marker in biological research or as a source of light in everything from airport runways to luminous watch dials. The apparent losses were discovered when customers complained of discrepancies between the amount of tritium ostensibly exported...
Memere's, a Louisiana-style restaurant in Oak Park, Ill., has a loyal clientele for its rattlesnake gumbo. The New Deal restaurant in New York City's Soho is corralling herds of diners with its beaver empanada, kangaroo yakitori and black-buck antelope. Next month Fallow Deer Associates of Hudson, N.Y., will begin supplying health-food stores with prepackaged ground venison and venison burgers...
...additional $250 million in Pentagon contracts was laundered through the Department of Energy and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The Energy Department's inspector general, John Layton, said contracts at DOE were drawn so loosely that the department was forced to pay fully even when contractors defrauded the Government. Since January, 22 people, mostly defense contractors and consultants, have pleaded guilty to or been convicted of a variety of charges in the so-called Ill Wind investigation into procurement abuses...