Argonne National Laboratory-East Information
Location
9700 South Cass Street
Argonne, Illinois
Argonne is one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s largest research centers. It is also the nation’s first national laboratory, chartered in 1946. The Laboratory specializes in reactor engineering, reactor physics, chemistry and metallurgy. Early reactor research focused on the production of plutonium from uranium.
Argonne is a direct descendant of the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory, part of the World War II Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb before the Nazis did. It was at the Met Lab where, on December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and his band of about 50 colleagues created the world’s first controlled nuclear chain reaction in a squash court at the University of Chicago.
The premises covered under this listing include all those which are part of the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) campus in Argonne, Illinois and those in which operations associated with the former Met Lab were performed under contract to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) once Met Lab operations were administratively incorporated into ANL.
Throughout the course of its operations, the potential for beryllium exposure existed at this site, due to beryllium use, residual contamination, and decontamination activities.
Type of Facility
- Department of Energy
Covered by EEOICPA
- Part B and Part E
EEOICPA Covered Years
- 1946-Present
Contractor
- University of Chicago
Contract Numbers
- W-31-109-ENG-38
- AC04-76DP00053
DOE
- Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource Analytic Data File Sets-Mortality and Morbidity Study of 5-rem Workers at 23 Department Of Energy (DOE) facilities
- DOE Facility List by Name
- Flickr
- Glassdoor
- YouTube Channel
- Website
DOL
- FAQs About Your Case
- Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Worker Health
- Ombudsman’s Office
- Resource Center
- DOL Case and Claim Statistics
- Site Exposure Matrix
NIOSH
- Tracking your NIOSH Case Status
- Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health
- NIOSH Case Statistics
- Special Exposure Cohort Status Table
- Work Site Information
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