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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated October 16, 1961 partially reads, "A five-man Atomic Energy Commission team ran tests over the weekend at North Hollywood High School to determine how much radiation would enter a typical school building in case of nuclear fallout. The AEC mobile crew placed radioactive cobalt on the roof on one classroom building and on the ground alongsie [sic] it and measured the amount of radiation seeping into the structure...Selected for testing at North Hollywood High was the concrete-enforced north wing of Randolph Hall, in the southwest corner of the campus at 5231 Colfax Ave." Jack Brashears uses a radiation-measuring scintillator to see if any radiation is left from the Atomic Energy Commission fallout tests conducted at North Hollywood High School.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
North Hollywood High School (Los Angeles, Calif.) U.S. Atomic Energy Commission U.S. Atomic Energy Commission--Employees Radioactivity--Measurement Radioactivity--Instruments Scintillators--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles High schools--California--Los Angeles Schools--California--North Hollywood (Los Angeles) North Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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