This report describes unusual health physics problems, such as shielding modifications required, encountered with start-up and operation of the Sandia pulsed reactor. Included are: integral radiation doses received from primary and scattered neutron radiation; gamma radiation doses resulting from fission products in the reactor itself; and neutron induced radioactivities in the air, walls, and floor of the reactor building. Also listed are present health physics procedures and personnel dose histories.

This report describes the collection, analyses, and evaluation of soil, vegetation, and water samples from the local environment surrounding Sandia Corporation Area V: the City of Albuquerque, Bernalillo and Sandoval Counties, New Mexico. The program is primarily to establish background radiation levels for selected radioactive isotopes prior to the startup of Sandia Corporation's Pulsed Reactor Facility and Engineering Reactor Facility.