b'P ROVING THE P RINCIPLENeutron Radiography Reactor (NRAD), 197, 225 nuclear weapons, 74, 78 184-187, 221; half-life, 76; reactor fuel, 136-137, 166,neutron(s): defined, 20, 47, 60; demand for, 11 3- 1 14, 194; N u c l e o n i c smagazine, 128, 136 195, 232-233;waste burial/retrieval of, at NRT S ,in Hanford reactors, 96; in reactors, 44, 78; physics, nucleus, 20, 50, 100 197-203, 208-211; in weapons, 19, 23, 24, 78-79, 96-1 0 9- 1 11; in uranium, 18, 21-24. See alsoneutron flux; Nu e m b er g Code, 168 97, 207, 227-228. See alsofuel(s), nuclear; Hanford;rirradiation, neutron; half-life; fuel(s), nuclear; N y e r, Warren, 133 Rocky Flats; TRU; wasteexcursion; names of reactors Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, 44, 28-30, 81, Pocatello, Idaho: and siting of NRTS headquarters, 32-34;- neutron flux, in reactors: ATR, 160-161; ETR, 114115 ; 109, 158; ANPshielding research, 121; Chem Plant Naval Ordnance Plant, 8-11, 15, 17. Mentioned, 3, 40,EBR-I (the fast flux reactor), 47-48; FFTF, 187; development, 94-99; gaseous diffusion and uranium 58, 187, 189Hanford, 96; HTRE-2 reactor, 122; MTR (the high enrichment, 23-24; MTR development, 36, 49-50, 66, Pocatello Army Air Base, 13flux reactor), 49-50, 68-69, 70, 109-111, 113 -4; 69; reactor at Geneva Conference, 108; shipments to, Pocatello Chamber of Commerce, 27 11SL-1, 149. See alsoExperimental Breeder Reactor- I;from NRTS, 35, 102, 167; training of NRTSPocatello Rotary Club, 40Materials Testing Reactor; neutron(s) employees at, 54-56, 101-102 Polaris submarines, 126Nevada, State of, 188, 206, 208, 216 Odessa, Texas, 57 Ponderosa Drive, Idaho Falls, 56Nevada Test Site, 58, 79, 219 Ofte, Don, 244, 252-253 Popular Mechanicsmagazine, 74New England states, 218 Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union Portable Medium-Power reactor, 154New Jersey, 17 Local 2-652, 152 Portland Avenue, 11New Jersey Central Power and Light, 177-178 Old Faithful, 130 Portugal, 18New Mexico, 19, 220 Operable Units (OUs), 247 P o s t - R e g i s t, 31, 35, 127, 180, 187, 210, 221 e rNew Production Reactor (NPR), 227-228 Operating Area Confinement (OAC), 203 Potato Processors of Idaho, 113 New Waste Calcining Facility (NWCF), 196, 231 Operation Wiener Roast, 116po we r-cooling-mismatch (PCM), 225 New York, 30, 35, 51, 99, 107, 11 8 Oph e imer , J. Robert, 11 8 Power Demonstration Reactor Program, 133-134, 163pen New Yo r k e rmagazine, 231 Oregon, 5, 188 Power Burst Facility (PBF), 177-178, 197, 222, 225-226,New York Ti m e s, 197 Oregon Trail, 7 247Nichols, Clay, 214-215 O rganic Moderated Reactor Experiment (OMRE), 163, Pratt & Wh t ne y, 11 9iNike-Zeus missile, 126 18 Prestwich, Susan, 2159Nixon, Richard, 200, 212, 217 Pacific fleet, 10 Princeton University, 118, 196Nobel laureate, 21, 56, 184 Pacific Northwest, 190, 216 Process Makeup area, 100iv, 221 Nooter Engineering Works, 94 Pacific Ocean, 72, 86; coast, 8; war in, 8 ProgresseNorth Pole, 72 Paige, Bernice, 102 projectile points, 5Novia Scotia, 72 Paige, Hal, 90 Project Elsie, 15NS Savannah, 222 Pakistan, 231 Project Marsh, 15nuclear airplane, 116-127. See alsoAircraft Nuclear Palmyra atoll, 8 Project X, 228Propulsion Program Parsons, Ralph M. company, 229 Proposition 3, 254Nuclear Effects Reactor (FRAN),Pastore, John O., 82 Protection Technology Idaho, Inc., nuclear energ y, 25-26, 166; promotion of, in Idaho, 170, Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, 133, 231 proton(s), 18-20, 76185, 188, 189, 191, 192; released in chain reaction, 21 Pearl Harbor, 8 R&D magazineR&D 100 Award, 251Nuclear Energy Museum, 190 Pennsylvania, 72, 89. 133, 225 radiation, 49, 72, 82, 164; alpha, 59, 60, 79-80, 97;Nuclear Energy Park, 204 P er r y , Myrna, 57, 173 background at NRTS (and fallout), 58-61, 109, 11 6; Nuclear Energy Research Initiative (NERI), 252 Pershing II missile, 227 beta, 49, 59, 60, 69, 80, 97; detection, 58-59, 69, 105,nuclear flight. S e eAircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program; Persian Gulf War , 229 75, 143, 200; gamma, 59-60, 69-70, 97;gamma,nuclear airplane Peterson, Henry, 77 from reactor test operations, 121, 126, 143, 164;Nuclear Navy, 51, 72, 86, 174, 186, 197, 238, 252; Philipson, J. Bion, 41, 66, 133, 177 gamma, from waste and spent fuel, 80, 86; hazardExpended Core Facility, 86-89; and MTR, 194-195; Phillips, Frank, 57 symbol, 74, 170; protection standards, 62, 105, 217;training, 89-93. See alsonames of reactors; fuel(s), Phillips, Jane, Sorority, 57, 177 shielding, 53, 66-69, 170; used for materials testing,n u c l e a r, naval vessels; Rickover, Hyman Phillips Petroleum Company: ATR development, 160- 49, 70, 109. See also calcine; CERT; irradiation,nuclear power plant: army mobile, 25-26, 138, 154-155; 162; dress code for women, 173; employment safety, gamma; irradiation, neutron; MTR; radiation p oscommercial industry, 106, 160, 177, 180, 184, 197, 61, 63; LOFT, 178-200, 222; MTR set-up, research, d o s e/ e xur e 251-252; commercial safety, 128, 156, 226, 131, 169, 66-69, 71, 84, 109-114, 162; as NRTS contractor, 54- radiation dose/exposure: to public, 60-61, 85, 200; in re179, 186; potential in Idaho, 197, 204; in surface 58, 106, 176-177, 180, 182-183; Research Division, SL-1, 143-144, 146-148, 152, 156; to workers, 57, 59,vessels, 90, 187. See alsofuel(s), safety testing 54, 56; rocket propulsion research, 127; SNAP-10A, 70, 78, 89, 97, 194, 200, 202Nuclear Power Subcommittee of the National Governors 164; SPERT, 133-134; Waste Calcining Facility, 169- Radioactive Waste Management Complex (RWMC), 197,Association, 219 170. Mentioned, 156, 168. See alsoDoan, Richard; 203, 207, 210-211nuclear propulsion. S e eAircraft Nuclear Propulsion MTR; fuel(s), nuclear; Safety Test Engineering radioactivity: at Chem Plant, 100-102; discovery of, 18-Program; Nuclear Navy Program (STEP) 20; Idaho State control of, 62, 190, 206; lessening of,Nuclear Radiation Hazards Safety Committee, 188 Phillips P h i l tronmagazine, 58, 63 due to passage of time, 69; preventing spread of, in Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), 197, 218, 224, Phoenix, 195 work areas, 74, 77, 89; in Raft River geothermal226, 252 Pike, Sumner, 25-26 wa t er , 214; released by NRTS experiments, 120, 130, nuclear research, 197, 196-197; needed after World War 2, Piqua, Ohio, 163 135. See also half-life, radioactive; NaK; radiation;26, 44, 106; post-1990, 251, 254. See alsoC ERT; Pit 9, 203 radioactive iodine; radioactive wastefuel(s), nuclear, safety testing; names of reactors Pitman, Frank K., 209 radioactive iodine (radioiodine), 76, 164, 224; product ofnuclear rocket program, 124 Pitrolo, Augustine, 244, 251-252 fuel dissolution, 98, 104-105; released by SL-1nuclear terrorism, 207 P i t ts b ur gh, Pennsylvania, 46, 51-53 accident, 145, 150; pathway to human thyroid,nuclear waste. S e eradioactive waste plutonium, 2, 204, 222; bred from uranium-238, 47, 135, 167-16932 2'