Lawrence
Berkeley
LBNL is a DOE facility for August 13, 1942 to the present so workers are eligible to file both Part B and Part E claims.
Lawrence Berkeley has a Special Exposure Cohort for all workers with specific cancers and at least 250 days employment from August 13, 1942-December 31, 1961.
The laboratory that eventually became
the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was founded in
1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence, winner of the 1939 Nobel
Prize in physics for his invention of the cyclotron. Once
the Manhattan Engineer District (MED) was founded in 1942,
the Berkeley Laboratory became part of the MED. As part of
the MED, scientists at Berkeley developed the
electromagnetic enrichment process that was installed and
operated at the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge from 1943-1947.
Scientists at Berkeley also discovered the transuranium
elements, which include plutonium, neptunium and americium.
Work performed on behalf of LBL which
took place in Gilman Hall on the University of California
campus is also considered part of LBL.
Throughout the course of its
operations, the potential for beryllium exposure existed at
this site, due to beryllium use, residual contamination, and
decontamination activities.
Alternative Name
DOE
LBNL has a webpage, a Facebook page, a Twitter account and LinkedIn page as well as a YouTube page. DOE has a webpage on Lawrence Berkeley. DOE lists Lawrence Berkeley as a covered EEOICPA facility.
DOE Contractor
University of California (1942-present)
DOL
DOL provides Part B and Part E statistics on Lawrence Berkeley as well as exposure information from their Site Exposure Matrix.
NIOSH
LBNL has a Special Exposure Cohort and technical basis documents. NIOSH also provides dose reconstruction statistics for Lawrence Berkeley.
Others
Wikipedia has a webpage on Lawrence Berkeley.
Documents
Over 28,000 documents from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory can be found by searching OSTI's SciTech Connect.
