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This page is dedicated to building 9401
which housed the Army Radiation Dosimetry Laboratory.
The workplace of Dr. George Brucker
and Dr. Stanley Kronenberg.
The building was demolished.
All photos supplied by Mr. Micharl Ruane, except where noted. Captions
courtesy of Mr. Edward Groeber
Electronics Technician Joe Tomaini operates the controls
of the Seifert industrial x-ray machine housed in the room in front of
the control panel. The door to the rear of the room on the right
side of the picture is the lead lined door to the neutron generator room.
The control panel for the neutron generator is the rack to the left of
the door.
The "swimming pool" that contained the 3500 Curie Co
60 source. It was a welded stainless steel tank 20 feet deep filled
with water to shield the gamma radiation. When the source was installed
in about 1973, it was 125,000 Curies.
Learn what was in the pool - Camp
Evans radiates good will. by John Harnes, Asbury Park Press
Details of the Cobalt-60 source removal
in The Coast Star
Picture taken from "down range" in what was known as
the "Isotope Room". The two gray cylindrical housings on stands in
the left background were AN/UDM-1A Cesium 137 calibration sources.
Each contained approximately 50 Curies of Cs 137. The dark gray cylindrical
housing in the center of the picture was an AN/UDM-1 Co 60 calibration
source. It contained approximately 1 Curie when this picture was
taken. The small blue device on the right side of the picture was
a Cs 137 calibration source from J.L. Shepherd.
Photo
courtesy of Mr. James Stigliano, Wall, NJ
View of the back wall of the underground vault that contained
a 3000 Curie Co 60 source when it was first installed. Dr. Kronenberg
painted the mural on the wall in the 1950's.
View of the back wall of the underground vault through
the Zinc Bromide window.
Physicist Ed Bechtel sits at the control panel for the
Co 60 source. He is looking through a glass window that is filled
with Zinc Bromide. It was constructed like an aquarium and was 48"
thick. The window was removed and re-furbished (taken apart, cleaned
and re-filled with Zinc Bromide) in the late 1980s at a cost of $44,000.
Ed Bechtel is a Physics teacher at Middletown High School and worked with
Dr. Kronenberg over the summers between classes.
Related Stories...
December 14 Renowned Fort Monmouth physicist dies. The Asbury Park Press, By JOHN A. HARNES, Page B1
This article and the two below it announce the death of Dr. Stanley Kronenberg, Camp Evans mad scientist...a sad time for Fort Monmouth and us at Infoage.
December 17 Scientist hailed for inquiring mind. The Asbury Park Press, By JOHN A. HARNES, Page A17
December 21 Wall's mad scientist leaves behind a legacy of brilliance, humor. The Coast Star, by Desiree DiCorcia Pg.14,
Dr. Kronenberg's
obituary by Dr. Carl Accardo and Dr. George Brucker from the American
Institute of Physics website
Page updated February 6, 2004. Page created September 28, 2001
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