IAAP Building and Activities
 

Building No.

Activities/Work Processes

1-01

Maintenance Shops (Pipe Shop or Tool and Gauge Shop)

Fabrication

Weapons assembly, disassembly, inspection, and surveillance

1-02

Boiler House

Powerhouse operations

1-03

Water Lab

Chemical analysis

Analytical laboratory activities

Sample casting preparation and crushing

1-03-2 through

1-03-7

Solvent Storage

1-04

Developmental Lab or Chem. Lab

Health and Safety Offices, and the Information Retrieval Office where chemical analysis was conducted on the south end and maintenance was conducted on the north end

Other activities include chemistry laboratory, development, laboratory, oxyacetylene torch metal cutting, and testing

1-05-1 and 1-05-2

Melt Buildings

Known as the melt and pour areas or the “Center of Line” where operations included the melting of composition B, TNT and barium shapes, explosives fabrication, pressing, and machining, explosives melt production, and melting and casting

1-06-1

Magazine for Composition B and TNT

Powder (explosives) receiving, receipt and storage, and storage

1-06-2 Powder Prep

Powder (explosives) receiving, receipt and storage, and storage

1-08

Explosives fabrication, pressing, and machining;

1-08-1

Receipt and storage activities

1-10

Explosives Press and Machining

Explosives fabrication, pressing, and machining

Machining

1-11

Receiving and Storage

Receipt and storage activities

Shipping and receiving weapons components

1-12

Explosives fabrication, pressing, and machining

Assembly operations

1-13

Material handling

Weapons assembly, disassembly, inspection, and surveillance

(this was an assembly area for uranium 235 pits which involved the assembly of larger nonplutonium weapons (U235) detonators and covers

1-15

Staging area used for storing HE

1-16

Adiprene preparation

1-18

Research and development

1-19

MOCA operations

Weapons assembly, disassembly, inspection, and surveillance

1-40

Beryllium machining

Explosives fabrication, pressing, and machining

Machining

MOCA operations

Uranium machining

(high explosive machining and waste treatment facility, an underground building used for machining explosives from press and melt areas)

1-50

Round House (transfer building)

Powder receiving/prep

Receipt and storage activities

Testing and inspection

1-51 and 1-52

Master mechanics office

1-53

Scrap Recovery Plant

Research and Development “Plastics Lab”

Scrap recovery

1-55 Communications Center

 

1-60

Explosives fabrication, pressing, and machining

Preparation activities

Versene powder sampling

1-61

MOCA operations

U235 pit assembly

Weapons assembly, disassembly, inspection, and surveillance;

1-161-1

Major caliber loading

 

1-62 Boiler House

Conducted powerhouse operations

1-63

Weapons assembly, disassembly, inspection, and surveillance

1-63-1

Component assembly

Gas cylinder storage

1-63-2 through

1-63-6

Component assembly

1-63-7

Assembly Cell

MOCA operations

Weapons assembly and disassembly

1-64-1 through

1-64-5

Storage also used for pit storage

1-65

No information

1-66-1 and 1-66-2

Storage

1-67

No information

1-69

No information

1-70

Explosives machining waste disposition

Explosives residue storage

1-71 and 1-72

Rest House

Rest Area Storage

1-73

Pit storage and receiving

(where nuclear weapons were built and used as storage for pits)

1-74, 1-75, and 1-76

Rest House

Rest Area Storage

1-77

Pit storage and inspection

Tritium bottle charging

1-80

No information

1-84

Office/various labs

Gage block room

Physical lab

Electrical lab

1-99

Dust Collection Building

Dust collection

1-100

Linitron x-ray

1-100-1

X-ray facility and film development center

1-100-2

X-ray built for linitron accelerators

1-129

Radio, electronic, and instrument repair facility used for electronic maintenance

1-136

Bomb Shelter

 

1-137-1 and 1-137-2

Change House and Cafeteria

 

137-4

Main kitchen and cafeteria

Administration building

 

1-152 (5,6,7,8) and (10,11,12,13)

Storage

Underground storage (underground tanks)

1-55 Cooling Tower

 

1-169-C4A

Store

 

1-172 Office/Standards Lab

 

1-180-1

Storage

 

1- DIE

Tool and die maintenance

500-125

Laundry operations

5B-28

Explosives fabrication, pressing, and machining

5B-29

Test firing

Burn Yard

Burning yard operations

Division B Burning Grounds

Excess material disposal

East Burn Pad

Explosives disposal

Firing Site 1

Firing site operations

Hydroshot cleanup

Hydroshot operations

Firing Site 12

Explosive charge test firing

Hydroshot cleanup

Hydroshot operations

Firing Site 14

Plane wave lens shots

Plane wave lens shots cleanup

Tile shots

Tile shots cleanup

Firing Site 6

Explosive charge test firing

Plane wave lens shots

Plane wave lens shots cleanup

West Burn Pad

Explosives disposal

West Burn Pad Landfill

Landfill activities

Yard L

(AEC Inert Storage)

Forklift repair and battery maintenance

Yard C

Storage yard designated for explosive material

Yard G

Storage for finished castings