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Location 1127 Irving Avenue, Brooklyn, New YorkWolff-Alport Chemical Corporation was under contract with the AEC (#AT-30-1-Gen-287) for the procurement of thorium containing sludge for stockpiling by the AEC. A March 1949 document mentions, "current contract expires...

Location West Valley, New YorkFrom 1966 to 1972, Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., under contract to the State of New York, operated a commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at the Western New York Nuclear Services Center. The plant reprocessed uranium and plutonium...

Location 240 West Utica Street Buffalo, New YorkResidues from Linde Air operations were stored and rebarreled at this location. Alternative Names Linde Air Products Type of Facility Atomic Weapons Employer Covered by EEOICPA Part B EEOICPA Covered Years 1945 DOE DOE...

Location Rochester, New YorkAlthough much of the early theoretical and experimental work that led to development of the first nuclear weapon was accomplished outside the United States, American researchers made a number of fundamental contributions as well. Prior to...

Location Saranac Lake, New YorkThe AEC Division of Biology and Medicine supported beryllium research studies at the Trudeau Foundation. Type of Facility Beryllium Vendor Covered by EEOICPA Part B EEOICPA Covered Years 1950-1957 DOE DOE Facility List by Name DOL...

Location 4511 Hyde Park Boulevard Niagara Falls, New YorkTitanium Alloys Manufacturing (TAM) processed uranium-contaminated scrap associated with the nuclear weapons production process in 1955-1956. TAM also worked with zirconium tetrachloride for National Lead of...

Location Cantiaque Road Hicksville, Long Island, New YorkUnder Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) contracts, the facility was used for research and development with radioactive materials, principally uranium and thorium. It was also licensed by the AEC to fabricate...

Location 208-220 Willets Point Boulevard Bayside, Long Island, New YorkThe Metallurgical Laboratory of the Sylvania Electric Company investigated uranium and thorium powder metallurgy. It also produced powdered metal slugs, developed bonding techniques, and plated...

Location 2393 Richmond Terrace Port Richmond, New YorkThis warehouse was used for uranium ore storage from the Belgian Congo. From this warehouse, the ore was transported to various Manhattan Engineer District (MED) sites for long-term storage and/or processing. The...

Location Lockport, New YorkSimonds Saw and Steel rolled uranium billets into rods for the AEC as part of the multi-site process overseen by the New York Operations Office for the production of uranium metal for fabrication into slugs for fueling Hanford production...

Location 2401 River Road Schenectady, New YorkIn 1950, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) constructed the Separations Process Research Unit (SPRU) as a pilot plant for developing and testing two chemical processes to extract both uranium and plutonium from irradiated...

Location Seneca Army Depot Romulus, New YorkSeneca Army Depot has been delisted and is no longer covered by EEOICPA. The Manhattan Engineer District temporarily stored approximately 2000 drums of pitchblende ores, which contained uranium, at the Seneca Army depot....

Location 823 Sacandaga Road Glenville, New YorkThe Sacandaga Facility was operated by the General Electric Company Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory for the AEC from 1947 to 1953. AEC-sponsored research at the facility involved physics studies and sodium technology...

Location 598 W 120th Street New York, New YorkColumbia University was already researching some of the problems involved in determining whether it was feasible for the United States to build a nuclear weapon prior to the establishment of the Manhattan Engineer District...

Location Troy, New YorkUnder an AEC contract in the early 1950s, researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute investigated methods for improving the ductility of beryllium by coating the material with copper. The Brush Beryllium Company supplied the beryllium...

Location 6006 27th Avenue New York, New YorkBeginning in 1943, the Radium Chemical Co. supplied most of the radium required for the Manhattan Engineer District. Combinations of material supplied and/or mixed by the Radium Chemical Company included radium bromide and...

Location Peek Street Schenectady, New YorkA note in the file for the Sacandaga facility indicates that Peek Street was a predecessor to the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.Throughout the course of its operations, the potential for beryllium exposure existed at this...

Location 10 Washington Place New York, New YorkNew York University worked on the development of counting equipment for the Manhattan Engineer District/Atomic Energy Commission. NYU handled a small quantity of uranium for research purposes. Type of Facility Atomic...

Location East Park and Woodward Tonawanda, New YorkThe Linde Air Company performed uranium and nickel processing for the Manhattan Engineer District (MED) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) at the Ceramics Plant in Tonawanda. African and Canadian ores were milled...

Location Chandler Street Buffalo, New YorkThe Linde Air Products facility, also known as the Chandler Plant, was involved in the development and production of barrier for the Oak Ridge Diffusion Plant. During World War II, Linde was part of the Carbide and Carbon...

Location 155 Avenue of the Americas New York, New YorkLedoux had been an AWE facility starting  1946 but is no longer covered under EEOICPA. Ledoux and Company's work with uranium and nuclear materials began during the 1930s when the company first developed methods of...

Location Fletcher Road Niagara, New YorkIn 1944, the Manhattan Engineer District (MED) obtained a portion of the Lake Ontario Ordnance Works (LOOW) from the Department of Defense (DoD) for storage of low-grade radioactive residues resulting from pitchblende ore...

Location 123 Lake Street Ithaca, New YorkDuring 1961-1962, Ithaca Gun conducted tests involving the forging of hollow uranium billets into tubes for the metallurgical group at National Lead Company of Ohio (Fernald). Alternative Names Ithaca Gun Club Type of Facility...

Location 69 Kisco Avenue Mt. Kisco, New YorkThe International Rare Metals Company processed pitchblende ores for the African Metals Corporation to extract radium. The same ores were processed for the Manhattan Engineer District to recover uranium. Other than the...

Location Delaware Avenue Niagara Falls, New YorkIn January 1943, Hooker began work for the Manhattan Engineer District to manufacture fluoridated and chlorinated organic chemicals. The by-product of this work was hydrochloric acid that was subsequently used in the...

Location Tonawanda, New YorkIn late June 1943, the Manhattan Engineer District (MED) leased the Haist Property (now known as the Ashland #1 site) for the storage of waste residues produced during uranium-ore processing at the nearby Linde Air Products facility. The...

Location Yonkers, New YorkGeneral Astrometals supplied beryllium metal and parts to the Y-12 plant and to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It also purchased beryllium chips and contaminated powder from Oak Ridge. In 1970 they analyzed some beryllium samples for...

Location Farmingdale, Long Island, New YorkThe Republic Aviation Division of the Fairchild Hiller Corporation produced beryllium products for the AEC's Rocky Flats facility in 1969 and 1970. Alternative Names Republic Aviation Division Fairchild Industries Type of...

Location 4625 Royal Avenue Niagara Falls, New YorkIn 1942, the Electro Metallurgical Company (ElectroMet), a subsidiary of Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation, was contracted by the Manhattan Engineer District to design, engineer, construct, and operate a metal...

Location Syracuse, New York In 1951, New York Operations Office personnel performed a test forging and rolling of 10 thorium billets at Crucible Steel Company.During the period of residual contamination, as designated by the National Institute for Occupational Safety...

Location 1130 Central Avenue Albany, New YorkFrom 1958-1968, National Lead Industries owned and operated the Colonie site and during this time it produced uranium products under contract to the AEC. This contract was terminated in 1968. Thereafter, National Lead...

Location 1625 Buffalo Avenue Niagara Falls, New YorkIn June of 1943, the Carborundum Company at its Globar Plant and Buffalo Avenue locations performed experimental grinding of uranium metal using a centerless grinder. Uranium slugs were received in June and return...

Location Maspeth, New YorkIn 1949, under AEC contract AT(30-1)438, Burns & Roe constructed a pilot plant in Maspeth on Long Island. The plant was constructed as a means of determining the potential value of the Sheer-Korman process in the manufacture of reactor...

Location Upton, New YorkBrookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is the former site of a U.S. Army installation (Camp Upton) and has been involved in research and development activities in support of the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies since 1947....

Location 110 Hopkins Street Buffalo, New YorkUnder contract to the National Lead Company of Ohio (Fernald), Bliss and Laughlin Steel rolled uranium rods for the AEC and also provided uranium slug machining services. Bliss and Laughlin was part of a complex called the...

Location Lackawanna, New YorkIn 1949, Bethlehem Steel of Lackawanna, New York developed improved rolling mill pass schedules for uranium billets into 1.5-inch rods to be used for reactor fuel rods to later be used at the Fernald plant. Bethlehem also performed uranium...

Location 535 West 20th Street New York, New YorkThe Manhattan Engineer District and the Atomic Energy Commission used the Baker & Williams site warehouses for short-term storage of uranium concentrates. This material was generated in Port Hope, Canada by milling...

Location 1550 55th Street Brooklyn, New YorkDuring the early 1950s, this location designed and produced industrial equipment for the Atomic Energy Commission. American Machine Foundry also performed a large volume of uranium, thorium and possibly zirconium metal...

Location Spring Street Road Watervliet, New YorkAllegheny-Ludlum Steel rolled uranium billets into rods for the AEC as part of the multi-site process overseen by the New York Operations Office for the production of uranium metal for fabrication into slugs for fueling...