Site History and Operation LBNL began as an accelerator laboratory in 1931, when Ernest O. Lawrence established the Radiation Laboratory with the construction of the 27-Inch Cyclotron on the UCB campus. The laboratory was moved to its present location in 1940, when the 184-Inch Cyclotron was built on a hill overlooking the campus and the City of Berkeley. During a period of rapid growth between 1940 and 1946, the original hillside laboratory (Old Town area) became crowded with temporary wooden buildings hastily erected in response to national defense needs. Further development during the 1950’s was more carefully planned, with the construction of permanent concrete and steel-frame structures east and westDOE Environmental Management of the earlier buildings. From 1948 until 1972, LBNL was known as the Lawrence Radiation "Rad" Laboratory and was funded by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and its successor agencies. The name was changed to the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in 1972 and changed again in 1995 to the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In general, the structures of LBNL are DOE-owned, while the land is owned by UC and leased to DOE. LBNL Community Involvement Radiocative Berkeley: Pathway to Exposure Radiocative Berkeley: No Safe Dose City Council Presentation, discussions & Actions Nuclear Weapons Development at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab Tritium Releases at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab Community City Council Presentation 96 Tritium Trickle Down Community Protest LBNL 101: A Community Perspective Campus Bay Richmond Toxics Exposure British Petroleum - Helios Energy Research Project Melvin Calvin Radiation Lab, UC campus LBNL SHAM Sampling Taskforce Community Protest 2001 Radiation and Health Radiation Exposure at the Lawrence Hall of Science, Bay TV LBNL Radiation Contamination Chronicles, Barbara George Dr. Helen Caldicott: Berkeley Tritium Releases Medical Implications of Nuclear Energy - Dr. Helen Caldicott John Gofman M.D., Ph.D: Ionizing Radiation Dr. Ernest Sternglass Health Risks of Low-level Radiation Baby Teeth Study Sr-90 Dr. Janette Sherman, M.D LBNL Radiation Chronicles Depleated Uranium DU Marin Co. Breast Cancer Uranium Mining How Much is Enough" Hiroshima, 1965 Andrew Stern - Q & As Monitoring LBNL IFEU - Review Radiological Monitoring LBNL LBNL History Radiation Chronicles LBNL Sampling Project Taskforce 2000-01 Video Archived LBNL Tree-core sampling Blackberry Cr. 11- 1999Archived LBNL Tree Core sampling Mar. 200 1Archived LBNL Creek sampling (Strawberry) Archived Abolition LBNL Nuclear Weapons Research Forum Dr Michio Kaku Abolition 2000 Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Abolition 2000 Eliminating Nuclear Weapons California: National Nuclear Dump? Breeder Reactors Helen Caldicott Nuclear Weapons & Nuclear Power, Helen Caldicott Glenn Seaborg, Seaborgium Emilio Segrè “It was wartime Bevatron Dr. Otto J. M. Smith & Bevatron construction Bevatron Demolition: Atom Smasher Smashed Bevatron Emissions Bevatron: Landmark Petition Berkeley RAD Lab Radioactive Demolition Debris LBNL - LRDP (Planning) LBNL LRDP scoping PH 2002 -Video archived LBNL LRDP presentation 2007 Berkeley Progressives say No to Radioactive Tritium Releases (No EIR, No Peace) RAD LAB VIDEOS Below Resource Conservation and Recovery RCRA LBNL Accelerating Environ. Cleanups Oakland 98 RCRA Corrective Actions Site Cleanup Video 2005 Department of Energy Long-Term Stewardship Study RCRA Comments to LBNL Sitewide Cleanup 2004 SFRWQCB RCRA Corrective Actions 2004 DTSC’s Decision For the Approval (APPEAL) of Corrective Measures Study 2005 RCRA MAPS Corrective Measures Study 2004 US EPA Region 9 Bay Area DIOXIN UPDATE Community Imput to LBNL RCRA Process 2003 Molecular Foundry NANO LBNL Molecular "Nano" Foundry LBNL Molecular Foundry community HISTORY Berkeley Versus Nano Technology 2003 LBNL Long Range Development Plan (NOP) LBNL - LRDP (Planning) LBNL LRDP scoping PH 2002 - Video archived LBNL LRDP presentation 2006 Berkeley Progressives say No to Radioactive Tritium Releases (No EIR, No Peace) Citizen's Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund Grants LBNL Site Monitoring: Present & Reconstruction of Past Tritium Emissions Prof. Roger Byrne Contaminant Plumes Study of LBNL LBNL Waste Management LBNL & USEPA Delisting Petition mixed waste 2000 & 2003 Archived IFEU on Delisting Petition - Video archived Hazardous Waste Community Lawsuit 95-97 Administrative Review of LBNL Waste Facility Permit DOE Environmental Mangement Stakeholder Workshop Presentation 1997 Oakland, CA Video archived LBNL Tritium Lab Emissions Closure of LBNL's Tritium Labeling Facility Preliminary Technical Report National Tritium Labeling Facility Prof. Roger Byrne Dr. Helen Caldicott: Berkeley Tritium Release LBNL PRESS LBNL: 75 Years of Science 75 Years of Pollution Radioactive Trees Lawrence Hall of Science LBNL Rad Waste News Under Construction Tritium Issues Workshop 1997 -1999 Tritium Issues Community Workgroup TIWG USEPA-Berkeley Workgroup meetings (17) Archived   Lawrence Hall of Science Radiation Berkeley National Lab 101 A Community Perspective RCRA Corrective Actions Site CLEANUP IFEU (Consultant) - Review Radiological Monitoring LBNL LBNL Nuclear Weapons Reserch City Forum Closure of LBNL's Tritium Labeling Facility Lawrence Berkeley LRDP Long Range Development 2007 Lawrence Berkeley Lab Radiation Chronicles Ionizing Radiation: NO Safe DOSE LBNL Accelerating Environmental "Cleanups" Molecular "Nano" Foundry Lawrence Berkeley Lab DOE Stewardship and the Berkeley lab LBNL Molecular "NANO" Foundry History Abolition 2000 Eliminating Nuclear Weapons Radiocative Berkeley No Safe Dose Campus Bay Richmond Toxics Bevatron Down & Dirty Contaminant Plumes Study Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Bevatron INDEX & Landmark Petition Tritium Trickle Down Community Protest Tritium Issues Community Work Group (TIWG) LBNL - Waste Facility Community Lawsuit Dr Michio Kaku Abolition 2000 "Berkeley Progressives say no to radioactive Tritium releases Emilio Segrè “It was wartime… Breeder Reactors Helen Caldicott Glenn Seaborg Seaborgium Long Range Development Plan ..Notice of Preparation Radiocative Berkeley Pathway to Exposure British Petroleum - Helios Energy Research Project Dr. Helen Caldicott Berkeley Tritium Releases Long-Term Stewardship at Lawrence Berkeley Lab Baby Teeth Study Sr-90 Dr. Janette Sherman, M.D Dr. Otto J. M. Smith and the Bevatron Bevatron Radioactive demolition and Debris Melvin Calvin Radiation Lab, UC Berkeley campus Sampling Taskforce Protest Hiroshima 1965 - Dr Stern   Dr. Ernest Sternglass Health Risks of Low-level Radiation   Depleated Uranium DU & DU weapons Bevatron Demolition Scoping Process   Medical Implications of Nuclear Energy - Dr. Helen Caldicott   Tritium Issues Work Group Video Archived LBNL's Sampling Taskforce Video Archived LBNL & USEPA Delisting Petition mixed waste Video Archived

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