Advocates Speak

Advocates Corner – TEST Location 600 9th Street Golden, Colorado Coors Porcelain performed beryllium work for the Atomic Energy Commission. An early AEC document makes reference to Coors Porcelain’s involvement in beryllium work during the period from 1947-1948....

Y-12 Plant

Y-12 Plant Location 1 Science Way Oak Ridge, Tennessee Built in a rural section of East Tennessee, the Y-12 National Security Complex, previously known as the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant, was part of the Manhattan Project. Its job was to process uranium for the first atomic...

W.R. Grace

W.R. Grace Location Bear Creek Road Erwin, Tennessee The Davison Chemical Division of W.R. Grace Co. (later Nuclear Fuel Services) processed unirradiated uranium scrap for the AEC, recovering enriched uranium from it for use in the nuclear weapons complex....

Vitro Corporation of America

Vitro Corporation of America Location North Hawthorne Street Chattanooga, Tennessee Records indicate that “Vitro Corporation” of Chattanooga, TN performed some beryllium work for Y-12 during the period 1959-1965. A 1962 document also mentions that the AEC...

Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Office of Scientific and Technical Information Location 4000 North Hawthorne Street Oak Ridge, Tennessee  The Office of Scientific and Technical lnformation was created to serve as a federal government repository for all technical reports pertaining to the Department...