Winchester
Engineering & Analytical Center
Winchester is a DOE facility from 1952-1961 so workers are eligible to file for both Part B and Part E claims.
Winchester has a Special Exposure Cohort which covers all workers with specific cancers and at least 250 days of employment for January 1, 1952-December 31, 1961.
The Winchester Engineering and
Analytical Center, built in 1952 under sponsorship of the
AEC, was used to continue development of methods for
extraction of uranium and thorium form ore and to prepare
metal grade uranium tetrafluoride. Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT) began the work in 1946 at Cambridge, MA
and continued the work after it was transferred later that
year to Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, MA. American Cyanamid
Company succeeded MIT in operating the project at Watertown
Arsenal from 1951 until October 1952, when it was
transferred to the Winchester Facility. In 1954, National
Lead Company, Inc. took over operations under AEC contract
AT(49-6)-924. Beginning in 1959, facility use shifted to
laboratory testing of environmental analysis methods
pertaining to uranium waste. In 1961, the work was
discontinued, and the facility was transferred to the
Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) for use as
a low-level environmental radiation surveillance laboratory
and for analysis of radiopharmaceuticals. The facility is
now run by the Food and Drug Administration.
Alternative Names
DOE
DOE Legacy Management has a Winchester webpage because it was considered for FUSRAP.
DOL
DOL provides Part B and Part E statistics on Winchester but no Site Exposure Matrix.
NIOSH
NIOSH lists statistics for Winchester dose reconstructions.
