Los Alamos Historical Document Retrieval and Assessment (LAHDRA) Publications

Reports from this Project

The Draft Final Report of CDC’s LAHDRA project is 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• Complete Copy, Draft Final Report of the Los Alamos Historical Document Retrieval and Assessment (LAHDRA) Project (June 2009) (69 MB)

The report can be downloaded by chapter in the sections below.

• 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 LAN
  
  
• 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

Press Releases

• Environmental review to document releases and health effects at Los Alamos National Laboratory (January 27, 1999)