Westinghouse
Electric
Westinghouse is an AWE site from 1942-1March 1, 2011 so workers are eligible to file Part B claims.
Westinghouse has two Special Exposure Cohorts which cover all workers with specific cancers and at least 250 days of employment for August 13, 1942 through December 31, 1949 and February 1, 1958 through May 31, 1958 and June 1 through June 30, 1959.
Westinghouse Electric, located in
Bloomfield, NJ, was one of the large commercial contributors
to Manhattan Project research. Specific tasks related to
uranium metal production and enrichment. Because developing
the technology to produce pure uranium metal became a
priority for the Manhattan Project, universities, and
private companies with experience in related chemical
processes participated in the task. From 1942-1943,
Westinghouse used a photochemical process for metallic
uranium and supplied metallic uranium for the first
self-sustaining chain reaction in Chicago. In addition to
contributing to uranium metal production, Westinghouse
Electric participated in activities related to uranium
enrichment.
Westinghouse also worked with thorium
under contract W-7409-ENG-31 for the Manhattan Project at
this location. In the periods February through May of 1958
and again in June of 1959 Westinghouse performed rollings of
uranium tubes on the Assel Mill to evaluate whether this
process could be used to create a product suitable for
machining into a hollow fuel core for use in a nuclear
reactor.
During the period of residual
contamination, as designated by the National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health and as noted in the dates
above, employees of subsequent owners and operators of this
facility are also covered under the Energy Employees
Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act.
Alternative Name
North American Phillips Lighting
DOE
DOE Legacy Management has a webpage for Westinghouse.
DOL
DOL provides Part B statistics on Westinghouse.
NIOSH
NIOSH provides dose reconstruction statistics for Westinghouse.
Other
The Wall Street Journal's Waste Lands series provides information on Westinghouse.
