RE: radium connection

[Fred_Haywood@radian.com]

To All:

Much of the radium obtained by M. Curie was produced in Canonsburg, PA in
the 1920s by a private firm, Standard Chemical Company (name may not be
exact). A very interesting historical account of the extraction of radium
from ores, the  manufacture of sources, the procurement by a national
women's group, and the presentation of a source (or sources) by the
President was published by a Canonsburg newspaper in about 1927. This
information was uncovered during a records search in 1976-77 as part of
DOE's early FUSRAP discovery phase. The site was renovated under UMTRA in
the 1980s. 

Fred Haywood
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	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Lester Slaback [SMTP:Lester.Slaback@NIST.GOV]
	Sent:	July 08, 1999 2:07 PM
	To:	Multiple recipients of list
	Subject:	radium connection

	The Philadelphia meeting had an interesting talk on the M. Curie -
	Philadelphia connection.
	FYI the following site has some interesting data on the NIST - M.
Curie
	connection.  Fortunately we don't have some of the other attributes
of the
	Philadelphia connection, e.g., Lansdown (sp?).  But the 62 yr old,
	glass-encased Hönigschmid radium sources are an interesting source
to
	contemplate.  :-)

	But more of interest is the historical linkage to some of our
standards as
	discussed here.
	Go to .....
	http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Curie/main.html

	Disclaimer:  the above are the personal musings of the author, and
do not
	represent any past, present, or future position of NIST, the U.S.
government,
	or anyone else who might think that they are in a position of
authority. 
	Lester Slaback, Jr.  [Lester.Slaback@NIST.GOV] 
	NBSR Health Physics 
	Center for Neutron Research 
	NIST
	100 Bureau Dr.  STOP 3543 
	Gaithersburg, MD  20899-3543 
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	301 921-9847 fax
	
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