Re: Fwd: Cutie Pie ion meters -Reply

[Les Fraley <les@lamar.ColoState.EDU>]

On Fri, 20 Dec 1996 Glenn_D_Williams@RL.gov wrote:

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> We here at Hanford have used the Cp since the Manhattan project and it can be 
> traced back to the first reactor here at Hanford (B reactor )...Reading some 
> paper work out here from the 40's and 50's the term Cutie pie has been used 
> extensively..It a widely held belief that the term actually was used to disguise
> the instrument. This was a common practice here as all the process facilities 
> and reactors had some real strange code names during the war.
> 
> 
> Glenn Williams
> Sr.HPT
> 200 West Tank Farms
> Hanford Wa
> 509-373-2284
> 
I concur with Glenn.  I was told decades ago that all survey meters used 
during the Manhatten Project were given code names in order to reduce the 
possibility that "useful" information might get to the wrong people.
Les Fraley
Colorado State University
les@lamar.colostate.edu

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> Subject: Fwd: Cutie Pie ion meters -Reply
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> Date:    12/19/96 10:45 AM
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> >Is Paul Frame watching?
>      
> Yes Chris. I'm a masochist. 
>      
> >>Could anyone tell me where the name Cutie Pie comes from. 
> >> I thought it had something to do with Q for charge and the 
> >> collection area, but I'm not sure.
>      
> I don't believe that anyone really knows the exact origin of the term. 
> The cutie pie seems to have been developed in Oak Ridge during the 
> Manhattan Project (almost called the Knoxville Project by the way). I've 
> talked to old timers from the instrument group at ORNL about this, guys
> like Cas Borkowski, but they can't tell me exactly who built the first one. 
> There is a story that a fellow by the name of Ballou did it and named it 
> after his wife whom he thought was a real cutie pie. I tracked Ballou
> down and he denies that he had anything to do with the cutie pie. In any 
> event, the strong consensus is that the "Q" for charge and "t" "pie" for 
> two pi business makes a nice story but is pure fancy. The most probable
> explanation is that the instrument did such a nice job that they applied the 
> term "cutie pie" - a common slang term for something really neat. 
>      
> Best wishes to all for the holidays!
>      
> Paul Frame
> Professional Training Programs
> ORISE
> framep@orau.gov
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