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Woodruff, Seth R., Jr.
On 18 May 1955, Seth R. Woodruff Jr., manager of the AEC Las Vegas Field Office, announced that he had "instructed the Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Co., Inc.
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Broudy, Charles A. (-1977)
United States Marine Major Charles A. Broudy served in WWII as a pilot in the Pacific theater. He was among the first to land in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the atomic bombs were dropped. He was attending radiological school in San Francisco, California when he met his future wife, Alice Patricia "Pat" Sutton. After a whirlwind courtship, they married in 1949. Major Broudy served in the Korean War and then was stationed at El Toro Marine Base in Irvine, California.
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Amie, Curtis Rufus, Sr., 1927-
Curtis Rufus Amie, Sr. was born April 27, 1927 in Marshall, Texas.
Amie made it through eleventh grade and then graduated miner's training school to become a miner. Amie was the first African-American driller and blaster at the Nevada Test Site. He retired in 1978.
He was a Boy Scout Troop Leader for Troop #67 from 1958 to 1965.
He owned a Dairy Queen franchise store from 1973 to 1982.
Amie was an United States Army Sargent from 1946 to 1949 with an honorable discharge.
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Leonard, Cheryl
Cheryl Leonard was born October 31, 1944 and lived briefly in Sun Valley, California before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1945. After attending local elementary and middle schools, she started at Rancho High School during the day, and worked at the Huntridge Theater in the evenings and during the summer.
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Ortwein, O. Dennis
Dennis Ortwein was raised in a small town in Montana called Harlowton, the second oldest of seven children. He arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1956. Once in Las Vegas, Ortwein taught for a while, served as principal, and was involved in creating programs that helped integrate schools. He was also involved with his church choir, the entertainment industry in early Las Vegas, above-ground testing at the Nevada Test Site, and anti-nuclear protests.
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Savini, Robert M., 1886-1956
Robert M. Savini was a theater owner, film producer, distributor, and founder of Astor Pictures. Born in Huntington, New York on August 29, 1886, Savini moved to Florida in 1925 seeking movie production sites. He founded Astor Pictures in 1933, and managed twenty-six subsidiary companies underneath Astor Pictures. Savini died April 29, 1956 in Islamorada, Florida.
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Interviews done for "Rock Talk", undated
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Dennis Lee Askew Papers
Box/Folder: Box 01
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Characteristics of Spent Fuel, High-Level Waste, and Other Radioactive Wastes Which May Require Isolation, Volume 8: Appendix 4A-Nuclear Reactors at Educational Institutions in the United States, 4B-Data Sheets for Nuclear Reactors at Educational Institutions, 4C-Supplemental Data for Fort St. Vrain Spent Fuel, 4D-Supplemental Data for Peach Bottom 1 Spent Fuel - Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, DOE/RW-0184, 1988 June
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Office Collection
Box/Folder: Box 84
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Survey of Degradation Modes of Candidate Materials for High-Level Radioactive-Waste Disposal Containers, 9 Parts: Overview; V.1-Phase Stability; V.2-Oxidation and Corrosion; V.3-Localized Corrosion and Stress Corrosion Cracking of Austenitic Alloys; V.4-Stress Corrosion Cracking of Copper-Based Alloys; V.5-Localized Corrosion of Copper-Based Alloys; V.6-Effects of Hydrogen in Austenitic and Copper-Based Alloys; V.7-Weldability of Austenitic Alloys; V.8-Weldability of Copper-Based Alloys - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, UCID-21362, 1988 April-August
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Office Collection
Box/Folder: Box 92
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