March 28, 1952 letter from J.H. Lampe to Mr. J.G. Vann, with enclosure

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March 28, 1952 Mr. J. G. Vann Assistant Controller & Business Manager N. C. State College Dear Mr. Vann:

Attached is a copy of a letter which I received today from Dr. Clif- ford Beck which shows that the cost of the Reactor proper to date as $77,100. Dr. Beck's estimated total cost to complete the reactor is shown to be in the neighborhood of $100,000 to $115,000.

This information comes to you to keep you abreast of our program and to point out the program ahead. We need and appreciate your counsel and service as to this development because, as I well understand, there is now available for this work a sum which is approximately $90,000.

Sincerely yours, J. H. Lampe Dean of Engineering JHL: H Enc. cc: Dr. Clifford Beck

North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering of the University of North Carolina Raleigh PHYSICS DEPARTMENT

March 28, 1952

Dean J. H. Lampe School of Engineering Campus

Dear Dean Lampe:

On October 24, 1951, I wrote you a letter outlining the commit- ments which had been made by the Physics Department against the Reactor Construction Budget, and a rough estimate of the expenses yet to be incurred. The information presented to you at that time is summarized as follows:

On Oct. 24, 1951

$ 47,093 committed45,000 minimum estimate of additional amount required65,500 maximum estimate of additional amount required

i.e a total of $92,00 to $112,500

For your information, there is presented below an evaluation of the situation as it appears today. This estimate of total cost to be encountered is somewhat higher than the previous estimate, principally because the construction of the concrete shield by Southeastern Construction Company ran well over what had been expected. (We still do not have the final invoice on this, though

March 20, 1952

Amount Committed: Labor $10,000Instrumentation21,000 Graphite 3,500 Lead 5,900 Materials in the shield 7,500 Southeastern for shield 20,00 (17,055 + last bill (?)) Miscellaneous 39,200 $77,100

Estimated additional amount required MinimumMaximum Instruments $8,000 $12,00Water windows 1,5002,000Labor 7,00010,000Miscellaneous 8,00014,000 $24,000 $38,000

i.e. a total of $101,600 to $115,100

Sincerely yours, Clifford K. Beck Clifford K. Beck, Head Department of Physics CKB:m