Ohio

Location 730 Lorain Avenue Dayton, Ohio At the request of National Lead Company of Ohio (Fernald), Vulcan Tool Company conducted experiments involving the cutting of normal uranium slugs and tubes on a Brehm cutter in October 1959. Type of Facility Atomic Weapons...

Location 3800 Harvard Avenue Cleveland, OhioTocco had a contract with National Lead of Ohio (Fernald) to develop induction heating coil equipment for heating uranium fuel cores. Tocco performed operational tests of these units at its Ohio facility, which took place...

Location Milford, OhioIn 1952, National Lead Company of Ohio (Fernald) used Tech-Art to grind inserts as part of a study of Firth Sterling HF carbide profile inserts in conjunction with the machining development program. Additional documentation shows that Tech-Art...

Location Madison and Edwards Roads Cincinnati, OhioNational Lead Company of Ohio (Fernald) contracted with Leblond Machine for the purchase of a rapid boring machine. In 1961, acceptances tests, using 17 tons of natural uranium, were conducted at Leblond Machine. Type...

Location East 21st Street Ashtabula, OhioThe Ashtabula site(formerly known as Reactive Metals, Inc.) opened in 1962 and ended production in 1988. During this time, the site received uranium for processing under contract to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its...

Location 3930 US Route 23, Piketon, OhioThe U.S. began construction of Portsmouth in 1952 in order to expand the nation's gaseous diffusion program. The gaseous diffusion plants already operating in Oak Ridge, TN and Paducah, KY were not able to fulfill the nation's...

Location Piqua, Ohio   From 1963 to 1966, the Piqua Nuclear Power Facility was operated as a demonstration project by the City of Piqua. The facility contained a 45.5-megawatt (thermal) organically cooled and moderated reactor. In 1966, the AEC discontinued facility...

Location 500 Vantage Point Miamisburg, OhioIn 1943, the Manhattan Engineer District began the Dayton Project to investigate the chemistry and metallurgy of polonium. From 1943 to 1948, this work was performed at several locations throughout Dayton, Ohio, all of which...

Location Cincinnati, Ohio   In 1954, Mitchell Steel Company may have participated in the machining of a sample lot of four hollow extrusion uranium billets from ingots for National Lead of Ohio (Fernald). It is unclear whether Mitchell conducted the test or performed...

Location 414 Meadow Street Waterbury, ConnecticutBetween May and August of 1944, McKinney Tool & Manufacturing of Cleveland, Ohio, turned and ground unbonded slugs to provide fuel for the first nuclear reactors, including the three Chicago piles; the Oak Ridge...

Location 533 Reading Road Cincinnati, Ohio 1029 West 7th Street Cincinnati, OhioThe site machined various forms of uranium metal under subcontract to the National Lead Company (Fernald). The work was performed at two locations: Reading Road (from December 1954 through...

Location 3223 Eden Avenue Cincinnati, OhioThe AEC funded a Kettering Laboratory researcher's investigation of the biological effects of beryllium and its compounds. Kettering was also working on analytical methodology for beryllium for the AEC. Type of Facility...

Location 2909 East 79th Street Cleveland, OhioStarting in 1952, Horizons, Inc. was under contract with the AEC for the production of granular thorium metal and conducted some thorium research work for Savannah River. Earlier work performed by Horizons, Inc. for the...

Location 1550 Grand Boulevard Hamilton, OhioIntermittently from the 1943 to 1951, the Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Company machined natural uranium metal slugs from rolled stock under subcontract to DuPont and the University of Chicago.During the period of residual...

Location 1000 Harvard Avenue Cleveland, OhioHarshaw Chemical of Cleveland, Ohio refined black oxide and sodium diuranate to orange oxide and then to brown oxide for the Manhattan Project during World War II. The final result was a "green salt", which the Manhattan...

Location Time Hill Norwood, OhioThe Gruen Watch Co. conducted cold shaving and stamping and hot stamping washer tests for National Lead Company of Ohio (Fernald) in May and June 1956. The tests involved shaving and stamping uranium washers on a 60-ton mechanical press...

Location 1 Neumann Way Evendale, OhioThe Evendale Plant's major mission is to build aircraft engines. The AEC used this facility to work with a variety of radioactive materials, including uranium and thorium. This facility was also involved in the refining or...

Location 7400 Willey Road Fernald, OhioThe Feed Materials Production Center (FMPC) at the Fernald site was established by AEC in 1951 to convert depleted uranium, natural uranium, and low-enriched uranium compounds into uranium metal and to fabricate uranium metal...

Location Findlay Street Dayton, OhioRecords indicate that in December 1952, uranium­ contaminated nickel scrap metals were sent to Duriron, which were used to produce stainless-steel piping for production equipment vital to Fernald atomic weapons production. Type of...

Location 3092 Broadway Avenue Cleveland, OhioThe Grasselli Laboratory participated in the development the slug canning and coating processes for the Hanford site. Alternative Names Grasselli Laboratory Standard Oil of Ohio Type of Facility Atomic Weapons Employer...

Location 1. 1601 West First Street Dayton, Ohio 2. Runnymede Road and Dixon Avenue Dayton, Ohio 3. 601 East Third Street Dayton, OhioIn 1943, the Manhattan Engineer District (MED) began the Dayton Project to investigate the chemistry and metallurgy of polonium....

Location 4000 Mahoning Avenue Warren, OhioThe Copperweld Steel Company of Warren, Ohio, straightened and outgassed a large number of uranium rods for the Hanford and Oak Ridge reactors between May and August of 1943. Type of Facility Atomic Weapons Employer Covered by...

Location Painesville, Ohio 44077   Clifton had at least six large contracts with the AEC to supply beryllium products. By 1949, at least 8 beryllium-related deaths had occurred at Clifton. Type of Facility Beryllium Vendor Covered by EEOICPA Part B EEOICPA Covered...

Location 4165 Half Acre Road Cincinnati, OhioThe Cincinnati Milling Machine Co. built electro-chemical machining units. In September 1963, the company tested the feasibility of electro-chemical machining of uranium. Eight normal uranium solid cylinders 1 inch in...

Location 3714 Chester Street Lorain, OhioThe Lorain plant produced beryllium metal and beryllium oxide for the MED and the AEC. The plant was destroyed by fire in 1948.Due to Brush Wellman’s status as a statutory beryllium vendor, all employees of Brush Wellman in the...

Location 14710 West Portage River South Road Elmore, OhioBrush Beryllium plant in Elmore, OH, was built in 1953. It began producing beryllium for the AEC in 1957 after operations at the Brush Luckey, OH, facility ended. (Prior to 1957 it produced beryllium for the...

Location 4201 Perkins Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 3714 Chester Street Cleveland, OhioThe Brush Cleveland facility conducted research on a process for producing uranium metal (1942-1943) through magnesium reduction of molten green salt (uranium tetrafluoride). The facility...

Location 21200 Luckey Road Luckey, OhioFrom 1942 through 1945, National Lead operated a magnesium processing facility on the Luckey site for the U.S. government. In 1949, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) built a beryllium production facility at the site. The...

Location 1425 Plain City-Georgesville Road West Jefferson, OhioFrom 1943 to 1986, Battelle Memorial Institute performed atomic energy research and development for the Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies. The Battelle Laboratories have two separate...

Location 505 King Avenue Columbus, OhioFrom 1943 to 1986, Battelle Memorial Institute performed atomic energy research and development as well as beryllium work for the Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies. The Battelle Laboratories have two separate...

Location 435 West Town Street Columbus, OhioDuring the early stages of nuclear weapons production, uranium reactor fuel was produced by a variety of metallurgical techniques including extrusion, casting, and machining.In February 1943, DuPont, acting as an agent of...

Location 2551-2555 Harleau Place 1000 Post Street Toledo, OhioBetween June 1943 and July 1944, DuPont and the University of Chicago subcontracted the Baker Brothers company to machine roll metal rods into uranium slugs that were used for fuel in the world's first...

Location 414 Meadow Street Waterbury, ConnecticutFrom 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...

Location 14 West Rose Avenue Oxford, OhioFrom 1952 to 1957, Alba Craft provided a variety of machine shop services on natural uranium metal for National Lead Company of Ohio (Fernald). Early work at Alba Craft included general and developmental machining of threaded...

Location 3990 Simon Road Youngstown, OhioThe Ajax-Magnethermic Corp. was involved in induction heat treatment of various forms of uranium for National Lead Company of Ohio (Fernald) and also for General Electric (Hanford). The company fabricated an induction heating...