BWX Technologies Information

Babcock and Wilcox Company’s main plant at Mount Athos and the Lynchburg Research Center, also known as the Lynchburg Technology Center in Lynchburg, VA, performed work for a variety of Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and DOE projects.

Babcock and Wilcox Company’s Nuclear Facilities Plant in Lynchburg, VA, participated in the AEC’s Oxide Pellet Fabrication Program, which was managed by the New York Operations Office. Records indicate that shipments of enriched uranium were made to and from the Fernald facility during the years 1968-1972. The company also recovered highly enriched uranium from weapons scrap received from the DOE’s Oak Ridge facility between 1985 and 1996. In 1997 the Babcock & Wilcox Company facility in Lynchburg, VA became the BWX Technologies facility. From 1998 to 2000, the company fulfilled a contract for the recovery of enriched uranium from scrap materials containing beryllium. The Lynchburg plant also participated in a DOE-sponsored program called Project Sapphire, under which the plant had responsibility from 1995 to 2001 for downblending enriched uranium obtained from the government of Kazakhstan.

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

• Tubular Products Division
• Lone Star Tech
• Babcock & Wilcox Co. (Virginia)
• BWXT
• Lynchburg Technology Center

Type of Facility

• Atomic Weapons Employer
• Beryllium Vendor

Covered by EEOICPA

• Part B

EEOICPA Covered Years

• 1959 (AWE)
• 1968-1972 (AWE)
• 1985-2001 (AWE)
• 1960-1967 (residual radiation)
• 1973-1984 (residual radiation)
• 2002-March 1, 2011 (residual radiation)
• 1995-2001 (Beryllium Vendor)

Did work for:

• Oak Ridge

DOE

• DOE Facility List by Name

DOL

• Tracking your DOL Claim Status
• Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Worker Health
• Ombudsman’s Office
• Resource Center
• DOL Case and Claim Statistics
• Approved Special Exposure Cohorts
• Bulletin 10-17: BWX Technologies, Inc. (Virginia) SEC Class from January 1, 1959 through December 31, 1959 and/or January 1, 1968 through December 31, 1972
• Bulletin 11-05: BWX Technologies, Inc. SEC Class from January 1, 1985 through November 30, 1994

NIOSH

• Tracking your NIOSH Case Status
• Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health
• AWE Site Wide Documents
• NIOSH Case Statistics
• Special Exposure Cohort Status Table
  • Petition 169: “All Atomic Weapons Employer employees who worked at BWX Technologies, Inc., in Lynchburg, Virginia from January 1, 1959 through December 31, 1959; and/or from January 1, 1968 through December 31, 1972, for a number of work days aggregating at least 250 work days, occurring either solely under this employment, or in combination with work days within the parameters established for one or more other classes of employees in the Special Exposure Cohort.”
  • Petition 179: “All Atomic Weapons Employer employees who worked at BWX Technologies, Inc., in Lynchburg, Virginia during the period from January 1, 1985 through November 30, 1994, for a number of work days aggregating at least 250 work days, occurring either solely under this employment, or in combination with work days within the parameters established for one or more other classes of employees included in the Special Exposure Cohort.”
• Work Site Information

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

• Fuel Cycle Facility

Other Resources

• Waste Lands-America’s Forgotten Nuclear Legacy Database