Fernald Plant
Location
7400 Willey Road
Fernald, Ohio
The 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 into feed stock for fuel and target elements for reactors that produced weapons-grade plutonium and tritium. The Fernald Plant, operated by National Lead of Ohio (NLO), along with the Weldon Spring Plant in Missouri, were feed materials plants built by the AEC in the 1950s to supply fuel to the increasing number of nuclear reactors located at Hanford and Savannah River. Production operations at the Fernald site continued until July 10, 1989, when they were suspended by the Department of Energy (DOE). DOE formally shut down the facility on June 19, 1991. During its production mission, the Fernald site produced over 225 million kilograms (500 million pounds) of high-purity uranium products to support United States defense initiatives.
Throughout the course of its operations, the potential for beryllium exposure existed at this site, due to beryllium use, residual contamination, and decontamination activities.
Alternative Names
- Fernald
- Fernald Environmental Management Project
- FERMP
- FMPC
- Fernald Preserve
- FERMCO
- National Lead of Ohio
- NLO
Type of Facility
- Department of Energy
Covered by EEOICPA
- Part B and Part E
EEOICPA Covered Years
- 1951-Present
Contractors
- 1992-Present (Fluor Fernald
- 1985-1992 Westinghouse
- 1951-1985 (National Lead of Ohio
Did work for:
- Hanford
- Savannah River Site
DOE
- CERCLA
- Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource Analytic Data File Sets-Mortality and Morbidity Study of 5-rem Workers at 23 Department Of Energy (DOE) facilities
- Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource Analytic Data File Sets-Fernald Retrospective Cancer Mortality Study
- Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource Analytic Data File Sets-Nonmalignant Respiratory Study at Fernald
- Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource Analytic Data File Sets-Case-Control Study of Respiratory Cancer at Uranium Facilities at Tennessee Eastman Corporation (TEC) and Y-12 facilities in Oak Ridge, Mallinckrodt Chemical Works (MCW) in St. Louis and Weldon Springs, Missouri, and the Feed Materials Production Center (FMPC) in Fernald, Ohio
- Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource Analytic Data File Sets-Mortality Study Among Female Nuclear Weapons Workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Zia Company, Rocky Flats, Hanford, Mound, Savannah River, Oak Ridge X-10, Y-12 and K-25, Fernald, Linde and Pantex
- Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource Working Data File Sets-Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Working Data File Set
- DOE Facility List by Name
- FUSRAP Considered Site
- Environmental Management
- Legacy Management
DOL
- Tracking your DOL Claim Status
- Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Worker Health
- Ombudsman’s Office
- Resource Center
- DOL Case and Claim Statistics
- Site Exposure Matrix
- Approved Special Exposure Cohorts
- Circular 12-14: The Feed Material Production Center (FMPC) Special Exposure Cohort Class (SEC) from January 1, 1968 through December 31, 1978
- Circular 14-02: Feed Materials Production Center (FMPC) Special Exposure Cohort Class (SEC) from January 1, 1951 through December 31, 1983
EPA
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 046: “All employees of DOE, its predecessor agencies, and their contractors, or subcontractors who worked at the Feed Materials Production Center (FMPC) in Fernald, Ohio, from January 1, 1968 through December 31, 1978, 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.”
- Petition 046: “All employees of the Feed Materials Production Center (FMPC) in Fernald, Ohio, who were not employed by National Lead of Ohio, NLO, or the Department of Energy or its predecessor agencies, who worked at FMPC from January 1, 1951, through December 31, 1983, for a number of work days aggregating at least 250 work days, occurring either solely under this employment, or in combination with work.”
- Petition 046: “All employees of the Department of Energy, its predecessor agencies, and their contractors and subcontractors who worked at the Feed Materials Production Center (FMPC) in Fernald, Ohio, from January 1, 1954, through December 31, 1967, 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
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