Sandia
National Laboratories
Sandia is a DOE site from 1945 to the present so claimants are eligible to file claims under Part B and Part E.
Sandia has two Special Exposure Cohorts which cover all workers with specific cancers and at least 250 days of employment for January 1, 1949 through December 31, 1994.
Sandia National Laboratory originated
in 1945 as the Z Division of Los Alamos, the engineering arm
of the US nuclear weapons development program. Formally
established as Sandia National Laboratories in 1949, it was
given the mission to design the non-nuclear components for
nuclear weapons. Since 1953, areas have been used to test
nuclear and non-nuclear weapons components. From 1946-1957,
Sandia also housed a weapons assembly line and from
1963-1971, an onsite liquid waste disposal system for liquid
radioactive discharges from the Sandia Experimental Reactor
Facility.
Throughout the course of its
operations, the potential for beryllium exposure existed at
this site, due to beryllium use, residual contamination, and
decontamination activities.
Sandia National Laboratory is located about seven miles east of Albuquerque, New Mexico on about 2,820 acres within the Kirtland Air Force Base. .
Alternative Names
LANL Z-DivisionDOE
DOE Contractors
DOL
DOL provides Part B and Part E statistics on the Sandia National Labs as well as exposure information from their Sandia Site Exposure Matrix.
NIOSH
NIOSH has done several hundred dose reconstruction on Sandia workers and has technical basis documents for Sandia. There is a Special Exposure Cohort for workers from January 1, 1949-December 31, 1962 and on April 9, 2012 the NIOSH Advisory Board recommended adding a second SEC for workers from January 1, 1963-December 31, 1994.
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