Publications

The Draft Final Report of CDC’s LAHDRA project is now available. 

A PDF file of the Draft Final Report of the LAHDRA Project can be downloaded by clicking the link below: 

• Complete Copy, Draft Final Report of the Los Alamos Historical Document Retrieval and Assessment (LAHDRA) Project (June 2009)- (69 MB)

For those without fast Internet connections you can download the report in sections below. You can also request a CD or paper copy of the report by contacting Tom Widner as twidner@chemrisk.com or by calling 1-888-ChemRisk ext. 3207 (toll free, 888-243-6747 ext.3207) or by calling 415-618-3207.

• Executive Summary
  
  
• Chapter 1: Introduction to the LAHDRA Project
  Chapter 2: Overview of Historical Operations at Los Alamos (Also includes Cover Page and Executive Summary)
  
  
• Chapter 3: Information Gathering at Los Alamos
  
  
• Chapter 4: Plutonium Processing at Los Alamos
  
  
• Chapter 5: Reactor Development and Operations at Los Alamos
  Chapter 6: Accelerator Operations at Los Alamos
  Chapter 7: Tritium Processing at Los Alamos and a Screening Assessment of Public Exposures
  Chapter 8: Hot Cell Facilities and Operations at Los Alamos
  Chapter 9: Operations with Other Radionuclides
  
  
• Chapter 10: The Trinity Test
  
  
• Chapter 11: Beryllium Use at Los Alamos
  Chapter 12: Processing and Testing of High Explosives at Los Alamos
  Chapter 13: The LANL Health Division
  Chapter 14: Environmental Monitoring at LANL
  
  
• Chapter 15: Development of Residential Areas Around Los Alamos
  
  
• Chapter 16: Partial Chronology of Accidents, Incidents, and Events at LANL
  Chapter 17: Prioritization of Radionuclide Releases
  
  
• Chapter 18: Screening-Level Evaluation of Airborne Plutonium Releases from DP West Site
  
  
• Chapter 19: Prioritization of Chemical Releases from LANL
  Chapter 20: Preliminary Screening of Airborne Beryllium Releases from LANL Operations
  Chapter 21: Public Involvement within the LAHDRA Project
  Chapter 22: Findings of the LAHDRA Project

• Project Summary Report (pdf 3 MB)
• Report regarding Iodine-131 Releases (pdf 21 MB)
• Report regarding Iodine-131 Releases, Appendices (pdf 11 MB)
• Report regarding Mercury Releases (pdf 14 MB)
• Report regarding Mercury Releases, Appendices (pdf 7 MB)
• Report regarding PCB Releases (pdf 20 MB)
• Report regarding Radionuclides Releases from White Oak Creek (pdf 14 MB)
• Report regarding Radionuclides Releases from White Oak Creek, Appendices (pdf 2 MB)
• Report regarding Screening Evaluation of Additional Materials (pdf 5 MB)
• Report regarding Uranium Releases (pdf 27 MB)

• Task 1 Report, Identification of Chemicals and Radionuclides Used at Rocky Flats, March 1991 (pdf 10 MB)
• Task 2 Report, Selection of the Chemicals and Radionuclides of Concern, June 1991 (pdf 3 MB)
• Task 3 & Task 4 Report, Reconstruction of Historical Rocky Flats Operations & Identification of Release Points (pdf 24 MB)
• Task 5 Report, Estimating Historical Emissions from Rocky Flats 1952–1989 (pdf 30 MB)
• Task 6 Report, Exposure Pathway Identification & Transport Modeling, May 1994 (pdf 21 MB)
• Task 7 Report, Demographic & Land Use Reconstruction of the Area Surrounding the Rocky Flats Plant, April 1994 (pdf 10 MB)
• Task 8 Report, Dose Assessment for Historical Contaminant Releases from Rocky Flats, September 1994 (pdf 25 MB)