Pennsylvania

Location Cheswick, PennsylvaniaThe Westinghouse Nuclear Fuels Division received shipments of nuclear materials from the AEC nuclear weapons complex in 1971 and 1972. The Cheswick site received a shipment of enriched uranium from the AEC’s Fernald plant in 1971. It...

Location East Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaWestinghouse performed fabricating operations that included rolling and machining thorium metal billets into slugs for the DOE Hanford facility. Alternative Names East Pittsburgh Plant Forest Hills Location Type of Facility Atomic...

Location Canonsburg, PennsylvaniaStarting in 1948, Vitro was under contract to recover uranium from scrap. In the period from 1954-1956, Vitro had a contract to process production quantities of radioactive material (UF4) for National Lead of Ohio (Fernald). Vitro...

Location McKeesport, PennsylvaniaTests at the Christy Park Works, National Tube Division of the U. S. Steel Corporation, conducted in 1959 and 1960, demonstrated that rotary piercing of uranium was possible. The tests were conducted for National Lead of Ohio...

Location Carnegie, PennsylvaniaSuperior Steel produced uranium strip and rolled uranium slabs for use by the Savannah River Laboratory. In 1955, for example, they hot rolled twenty-five tons of uranium into strip. During the period of residual contamination, as...

Location Shippingport, PennsylvaniaShippingport Atomic Power Station, located in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, was one of the first large-scale nuclear power plants in the world. **Consistent with the Act, coverage is limited to activities not performed under the...

Location 4747 S. Broad Street Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaThe Philadelphia Naval Yard has been delisted and is no longer a covered EEOICPA facility. In 1944, the Navy built a thermal diffusion pilot plant using concentric hot and cold pipes at the Philadelphia Naval...

Location Philadelphia/Wyndmoor, PennsylvaniaPennsylvania Salt experimented with samples of fluoride containing byproducts from AEC operations to determine if they could be used for hydrogen fluoride production or to extract uranium from the material. Penn Salt was...

Location Parks Township, PennsylvaniaThe Nuclear Material and Equipment Company (NUMEC) began operations at the Parks Township facility in 1957. The primary function of the NUMEC Parks Township facility was the fabrication of plutonium fuel, the preparation of...

Location PA Route 66 and Kiskimere Road Apollo, PennsylvaniaThe Nuclear Material and Equipment Company (NUMEC) began operations at the Apollo facility in 1957. NUMEC processed unirradiated uranium scrap for the AEC in the 1960s. This facility also provided enriched...

Location Beaver Falls, PennsylvaniaThe Manhattan District History indicates that the McDanel Refractory was used to fabricate oddly shaped beryllium crucibles or beryllium crucible stopper rods for the Manhattan Project, but was not used on a large-scale production...

Location Waynesboro, PennsylvaniaIn 1952, National Lead of Ohio (Fernald) personnel performed tests involving the machining of uranium slugs at Landis Machine Tool Company. The tests were performed over a two day period. Type of Facility Atomic Weapons Employer...

Location Verona, PennsylvaniaIn conjunction with the Kennecott Copper Co., Koppers conducted pilot plant tests for the production of uranium hexafluoride. In 1956, Koppers was licensed receive 2000 pounds of refined source material for use in studies toward the...

Location 500 Green Street Washington, PennsylvaniaRecords indicate that in December 1952, uranium­ contaminated nickel scrap metals were sent to Jessop, which were used to produce stainless-steel piping for production equipment vital to Fernald atomic weapons...

Location 4620 Hatfield Street Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaUnder contract to the Mallinckrodt Chemical Co., the site was used to heat, press and water quench uranium "dingots". Approximately 100,000 pounds of normal uranium metal was shaped at Heppenstall over about a...

Location 5301 Tacony Road Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaFrankford Arsenal has been delisted and is no longer covered under EEOICPA. The Frankford Arsenal performed experimental research on uranium tetrachloride. It also served as a storage site for approximately 500...

Location East Whiteland Township, PennsylvaniaFoote Mineral had a pilot plant at its East Whiteland Township location which processed monazite sands. Monazite sands are known to have a very high thorium content. Because the AEC needed fairly large quantities of...

Location Chambersburg, PennsylvaniaIn March 1957, a series of hot uranium forging tests were conducted at the Chambersburg Engineering company by the Metallurgical Department of National Lead Company of Ohio (Fernald). Approximately 150 hot uranium slugs were forged...

Location 644 Garfield Street Springdale, PennsylvaniaIn 1943, C.H. Schnorr & Company began providing metal fabrication services in support of Manhattan Engineer District (MED) operations. C.H. Schnorr machined extruded uranium for the Hanford Pile Project....

Location 101 West Bern Street Reading, PennsylvaniaBeginning in 1943, Carpenter Steel Corporation was one of the 14 private contractors and vendors that produced fuel for the Oak Ridge X-10 pilot plant reactor and the full-scale Hanford production reactors. As an...

Location Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaDuring the Manhattan Project, Carnegie Institute of Technology was key participant in research on the phases of special metals and their alloys. It also worked on the development of methods for testing materials of construction and the...

Location Birdsboro, PennsylvaniaIn 1951, eight assorted uranium billets weighing a total of 346 pounds, originating at Birdsboro, were received by the AEC's Lake Ontario Ordnance Works. In 1952, Birdsboro received 11.5 pounds of uranium wafers for processing. Type of...

Location Reading, PennsylvaniaIn 1947, the Beryllium Corporation plant at Reading produced highly distilled and pure beryllium oxide on a small scale for the AEC. By 1960, the plant focused on alloy and oxide work. In 1961, the plant supplied beryllium parts to the...

Location Hazelton, PennsylvaniaThe Manhattan Engineer District and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) contracted with the facility for the production of beryllium metal, beryllium oxide, and beryllium powder. The AEC contracted with the facility for the refining and...

Location 600 Freeport Road New Kensington, PennsylvaniaThe Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) site in New Kensington, Pennsylvania was one of 14 facilities in the early 1940s that produced nuclear fuel for the X-10 pilot plant reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and the...

Location 100 First Street Alquippa, PennsylvaniaIn the late 1940s, Aliquippa Forge (previously Vulcan Crucible) was a supplier of rolled uranium rods used in Hanford's reactors. The AEC operated a rolling mill, two furnaces and cutting and extrusion equipment at...

Location 200-T East Rosedale Avenue West Chester, PennsylvaniaBeginning in 1951, Aeroprojects Inc. performed research and development for the AEC. The company's work included investigation of the use of ultrasonic energy in the areas of instrumentation, welding,...