Associate Aircraft
Location
414 Meadow Street Waterbury, Connecticut
From February to September 1956, Associate Aircraft Tool and Manufacturing Company machined hollow uranium slugs for the Hanford and Savannah River plutonium-production reactors under a subcontract from National Lead Company of Ohio (Fernald). Associate Aircraft machined approximately 96,000 slugs during the eight-month contract period.
Cleanup activities were performed in 1994-1995 by Thermo Nutech under the Bechtel National Inc. umbrella site remediation contract as part of the Formerly Utilized Site Remediation Action Program (FUSRAP).
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 Names
- Associate Aircraft Tool and Manufacturing Incorporated
- Force Control Industries
- Fairfield
- Former Dixie Machinery
Type of Facility
- Atomic Weapons Employer
- Department of Energy
Covered by EEOICPA
- Part B
- Part B and Part E
EEOICPA Covered Years
- 1956 (AWE)
- 1957-1993 (residual radiation)
- 1994-1995 (DOE-remediation)
Contractors
- American Smelting and Refining Company (1955-1956)
- Lucius Pitkin, Inc. (1956-1957)
Did work for:
- Fernald
- Hanford
- Savannah River Site
DOE
DOL
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- Resource Center
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- Site Exposure Matrix
NIOSH
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- Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health
- AWE Site Wide Documents
- NIOSH Case Statistics
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