New Jersey

Location 113 Astor Street Newark, New JerseyBaker and Company processed radioactive platinum as part of the process of making polonium, which was needed for initiators in nuclear weapons. Baker and Co. also processed unirradiated uranium scrap for the AEC to recover...

Location 722 Frelinghuysen Avenue Newark, New JerseyWyckoff Steel conducted tests of methods to straighten and finish uranium rods on September 6, 1950.  Type of Facility Atomic Weapons Employer Covered by EEOICPA Part B EEOICPA Covered Years 1950 DOE DOE Facility...

Location One Westinghouse Plaza, Building 7 Bloomfield, New JerseyWestinghouse Electric, located in Bloomfield, NJ, was one of the large commercial contributors to Manhattan Project research. Specific tasks related to uranium metal production and enrichment. Because...

Location West Orange, New JerseyIn December 1951, Vitro was asked to submit a proposal for research on thorium fluoride production, scrap recovery and waste recovery to involve 14 chemists and analysts. Though it is not certain whether this work was undertaken, by the...

Location Burlington, New JerseyA small amount of beryllium mesh (15 pounds) was sent to U.S. Pipe and Foundry by the MED. Some work was done, but it is unclear whether a satisfactory technique was ever developed beyond this initial attempt to manufacture beryllium...

Location Wallington, New JerseyTube Reducing Co. conducted tests for National Lead of Ohio (Fernald) on shaping and sizing uranium rods. In January 1952, two uranium rods were processed. More tubes were extruded in a reduction experiment in January 1955. Another test...

Location Hoboken, New JerseyThe Stevens Institute of Technology performed beryllium research and development for the AEC. Researchers at the school's Powder Metallurgy Laboratory experimented with slip casting production techniques as a replacement for the...

Location 1900 East Linden Avenue Linden, New Jersey 1400 Park Avenue, Bayway, New JerseyStandard Oil locations at both 1900 East Linden Avenue (Linden) and the property at 1400 Park Avenue (Bayway) performed a variety of tasks for the Manhattan Engineer District (MED)...

Location 868 Black Oak Ridge Road Wayne, New JerseyRare Earths extracted thorium from monazite sands from 1950-1960 under various contracts with the AEC. The AEC needed the thorium for its weapons program. Although the processing of monazite sands continued at Rare...

Location Princeton, New JerseyIn 1951, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), a predecessor agency of the Department of Energy (DOE), began operating the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) on Site C and Site D of the James Forrestal Campus. This property is owned...

Location Dover, New JerseyPicatinny Arsenal has been delisted and is no longer covered by EEOICPA. The Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, Picatinny performed studies on methods of radiographing uranium castings in the late 1940s using uranium billets supplied by the Atomic...

Location 986 Jersey Avenue New Brunswick, New JerseyFrom 1948 to 1978, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), a predecessor agency of the Department of Energy (DOE), used the New Brunswick Laboratory as a general nuclear standards laboratory for assaying nuclear and...

Location Haskell, New JerseyNational Beryllia performed a demonstration of its capabilities for production of parts for Y-12 beginning in late 1968, with delivery in March 1969. Additionally, National Beryllia delivered some parts to Union Carbide (Y-12), though the...

Location Mountain Avenue Middlesex, New JerseyIn the 1940's and 1950's the Middlesex Municipal Landfill was a repository for wastes from the Middlesex Sampling Plant. In 1980 this site was designated as part of the Formerly Utilized Site Remediation Action Program...

Location Mountain Avenue to Bound Brook Middlesex, New JerseyNational Inc. umbrella site remediation contract and by local subcontractors. During the period of residual contamination, as designated by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and as...

Location 100 West Hunter Avenue Maywood, New JerseyFrom 1916 to 1959, Maywood Chemical Works extracted radioactive thorium and rare earth elements from monazite sands for use in commercial products. From 1947 to 1950 the AEC purchased thorium compounds from the...

Location NJ Route 440 and Kellogg Street Jersey City, New JerseyIn 1943, the M.W. Kellogg Company established the Kellex Corporation to design and construct the first gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment facility, the K-25 Plant, in Oak Ridge TN. This work was...

Location 600 North Broad Street Phillipsburg, New JerseyJ.T. Baker Chemical was licensed by Atomic Energy Commission to process and distribute refined source material (uranium). The company had previously sought to purchase uranium compounds during World War II, but...

Location Bayonne, New JerseyInternational Nickel plated uranium slugs with nickel for use in the nuclear weapons production system during the early 1950s. Type of Facility Atomic Weapons Employer Covered by EEOICPA Part B EEOICPA Covered Years 1951-1952  DOE DOE...

Location Deepwater, New JerseyIn the 1940s, E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company (DuPont) produced uranium products and conducted research on uranium hexafluoride. These activities were conducted first for the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD),...

Location Linden, New JerseyThe Chemical Construction Company conducted research and development activities to recover uranium and other metals from low-grade waste materials. The wastes were generated by uranium processing operations at the Mallinckrodt facility in...

Location Union City, New JerseyAccording to a 1944 document, the Callite Tungsten Co. used its machines to cold roll uranium metal rods for the Manhattan Engineer District. During the period of residual contamination, as designated by the National Institute for...

Location North Branch, New JerseyBowen Engineering conducted some experimental work at their laboratory in New Jersey on uranium compounds during a two-day period in 1951. The tests were to develop a process for calcining pitchblende raffinates (transforming liquid or...

Location Bloomfield, New JerseyThe facility had a small research contract with the Atomic Energy Commission in 1947. In 1951, it did some experimental machining of uranium slugs for the AEC. The results were not satisfactory and the work was not expanded. Type of...

Location Murray Hill, New JerseyThis facility handled a quantity of uranium during World War II, probably in support of its work to develop effective barrier materials for the K-25 facility in Oak Ridge. The barrier materials were not radioactive. During the period of...

Location Moonachie, New JerseyThe facility conducted a one-day shear (cutting) test on uranium metal for National Lead of Ohio (Fernald) in 1978. Type of Facility Atomic Weapons Employer Covered by EEOICPA Part B EEOICPA Covered Years April 3, 1978 Did work for:...

Location Garwood, New JerseyUnder subcontract to the Metallurgical Laboratory (University of Chicago), the Garwood facility manufactured casting dies and used them to cast uranium slugs. This work was conducted intermittently between July and November of 1944. Type of...