No Contamination Found at Iowa Army Plant Testing
Oak Ridge experts spent over a week inspecting 17 buildings at Production Line One of the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant seeking radioactive contamination. Initial results found only naturally occurring radiation. final report due in five to six weeks.
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Iowa Army Ammunition Plant
Ray Foley
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Tenn
U.S. Department of Energy
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Burlington
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High Tech Radiation Survey Near Firing Site 12
A Iowa Today report describes a field team with two way radios blue TLD badges and flashlights conducting radiation checks. They use gas flow monitors Geiger tubes and sodium iodide detectors while logging readings for depleted uranium at Firing Site 12 and sending samples to Oak Ridge.
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Quest College Renamed from American Institute of Commerce
The Davenport business school has renamed to Quest College under Quest Education Corp and will offer two new bachelor’s degrees Applied Management and Information Technology Applied Management. It will expand online courses to 150 and remains part of a 30-school, 11-state system with about 350 on campus and 1,500 online students.
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Davenport
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Quest College
Quest Education Corp
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Middletown Iowa Army Ammunition Plant Line 1 Contamination Review
A May 1996 U S Army Environmental Center report on Production Line One at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant Middletown outlines a cartridge missile and grenade loading facility starting in 1941. Contamination includes explosives and metals with HMX RDX TNT and lead detected in soil water and groundwater samples across multiple monitoring points.
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U.S. Army Environmental Center
Iowa Army Ammunition Plant
Middletown
The
Atomic Energy Commission
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