Connecticut
Aircraft Nuclear Engine Lab
Connecticut Aircraft is a beryllium vendor and DOL facility from 1958-July 8, 1966 so workers are eligible to file Part B and Part E claims.
CANEL has a Special Exposure Cohort for all workers with specific cancers and who were employed for at least 250 days from January 1, 1958-December 31, 1965.
The Connecticut Aircraft Nuclear Engine
Laboratory (CANEL) worked on an Atomic Energy Commission
(AEC) program to develop a nuclear reactor with which to
propel aircraft. Specifically, CANEL worked on developing
high temperature materials, fuel elements, and liquid metal
components and coolants. CANEL consisted of a hot laboratory
facility, a nuclear physics laboratory, a fuel element
laboratory, a nuclear materials research and development
laboratory, and other buildings. The AEC Annual report for
1959 indicates that approximately $4 million in AEC
equipment was at CANEL. Plutonium, mixed fission products,
and probably uranium were handled at CANEL. A former ORNL
employee who had worked at CANEL stated that beryllium metal
and oxide in a powdered form were also handled at CANEL.
Although President Kennedy canceled the aircraft nuclear
propulsion program in 1961, AEC work apparently continued at
CANEL until 1965.
In November 1965, the AEC hired Dunbar
Transfer Company to dispose of radioactively contaminated
equipment and materials. This remediation work was completed
on July 8, 1966.
Alternative Name
DOE
DOE Contractors
DOL
DOL provides Part B and Part E statistics on CANEL as well as exposure information from their Site Exposure Matrix.
NIOSH
CANEL has a Special Exposure Cohort. NIOSH also provided dose reconstruction statistics for CANEL.
