TA-41 Brief Description

4.22.1 Site Description TA-41 [Table 4-20 and Figure 4-22 (index map of TA-41)] encompasses approximately 40 acres (16.2 ha) in Los Alamos Canyon and contains three major interrelated structures: an office building, a laboratory/office building, and an underground nuclear materials storage vault. TA-41 contains approximately 42,055 ft2 (12,818 m2) of usable floor space. Built in the 1950s to house tritium work, TA-41 is currently used for a variety of administrative/technical activities and nontritium research and development activities. All nuclear material had been removed from TA-41 by 1995. 4.22.2 Facilities Description Over the approximately 40 years that TA-41 was used for work involving tritium, the facilities provided capability for the research and development of weapons subsystems (boost systems). These capabilities included high-pressure testing, leak testing, precision volume measurement, and testing prototype and war reserve boost systems with and without tritium. Computer-aided design/manufacture facilities onsite were used to design hardware. Mechanical fabrication and assembly of prototype and war-reserve-like components were possible. Long-term environmental storage of prototype and war reserve boost systems with and without tritium were available. Some of these capabilities continue to be used in testing without tritium.   ©2004 lasg.org