National Research Corporation Information
Location
70 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, Massachusetts
National Research had Manhattan Engineer District experience in working with vacuum centrifugal castings, in developing jets and baffles for diffusion pumps, and in developing cold trap systems. National Research’s work with vacuum centrifugal castings (contract W-7405-eng-293) involved casting tubealloy (uranium metal) using the “lost wax” technique. In 1948, National Research did work for Mallinckrodt involving the vacuum melting of approximately 500 pounds of uranium.
A December 1946 letter indicates that National Research Corp. requested a “leak detector for use in connection with some special development work on beryllium.” It is not clear whether this work was ever actually done.
During the period of residual contamination, as designated by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and as noted in the dates above, employees of subsequent owners and operators of this facility are also covered under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act.
Type of Facility
- Atomic Weapons Employer
Covered by EEOICPA
- Part B
EEOICPA Covered Years
- 1944-1953
- 1953-1987 (residual radiation)
DOE
DOL
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- Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Worker Health
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- Resource Center
- DOL Case and Claim Statistics
- Site Exposure Matrix
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- Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health
- AWE Site Wide Documents
- NIOSH Case Statistics
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