Abstract
The High Level Radiation Laboratory of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory was dedicated in 1964. This laboratory, which was designed as a general purpose radiation facility, has undergone the usual startup procedures and it is now possible to describe this laboratory from the perspective of more than a year of operation. Upon Part I, Structural Design and Construction Features, there will follow in consecutive issues: Part II, Laboratory Functions and Equipment, and Part III, Operating Experience. In this first of the article a description of the main structural design and construction features of the NRL High Level Radiation Laboratory is given, such as: design criteria, hot cell shielding, radiation shielding viewing windows, hot cell access and inter-cell transfer facilities, cell electrical services and in-cell lighting, ventilation system, liquid radioactive waste disposal system, safeguards system.
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