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Alabama EEOICPA Facilities
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The Southern Research
Institute was involved in several AEC projects.
During the period from November 10, 1955 through
June 1, 1958, it was licensed (License #C-3417)
to receive source material from National Lead
Company of Ohio (Fernald) for research on the
properties of uranium-liquid metal fuel
elements. The Institute performed hot tensile
tests on uranium metal and was authorized to
receive 300 pounds of normal uranium from NLO.
Records also indicate that it handled test
quantities of radioactive metals for NLO in
1976. The file also contains a proposal to NLO
to test uranium workability at elevated
temperature, but does not indicate if the work
was done.
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.
Speedring has performed work using beryllium for Rocky Flats, Sandia National Laboratory, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. There was another Speedring facility in Detroit, MI.
At its National Fertilizer Development Center, the TVA performed research and development on uranium recovery under formal agreement with the AEC. The work involved the extraction of uranium during the production of fertilizer from leached zone phosphate ore. A laboratory and pilot plant were operated at the fertilizer plant, but little uranium (about 2.5 kilograms of uranium concentrate) was produced.