Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation-Apollo Information

The 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 uranium to the naval reactors program and included a plutonium plant, plutonium plant storage area, highly enriched uranium fuel facility, metals and hafnium complex and a uranium hexafluoride storage area. The facility also fabricated plutonium-beryllium neutron sources. The Apollo facility ceased manufacturing nuclear fuel in 1983.

On April 17, 1967, NUMEC sold all of its assets to the Atlantic Richfield Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, which was given the name NUMEC II. As a condition of that sale, the original NUMEC was required to both change its name to the “N.M.E. Liquidating Corporation” and to dissolve its corporate existence. In 1971, the Atlantic Richfield Company sold its subsidiary NUMEC II to the Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W). B&W absorbed NUMEC II by the end of 1974, at which point in time NUMEC II ceased to exist. B&W is the current owner of the Apollo facility. NUMEC II and B&W are both “successor” corporations of NUMEC that acquired NUMEC’s statuses as an atomic weapons employer and a beryllium vendor.

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.

Alternative Names

• Babcock & Wilcox Company
• NUMEC II
• N.M.E. Liquidating Corporation
• Atlantic Richfield Corporation

Type of Facility

• Beryllium Vendor
• Department of Energy

Covered by EEOICPA

• Part B

EEOICPA Covered Years

• 1960-1968 (beryllium vendor)
• 1957-1983 (AWE)
• 1984-1995 (residual radiation) 

DOE

• DOE Facility List by Name

DOL

• Tracking your DOL Claim Status
• Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Worker Health
• Ombudsman’s Office
• Resource Center
• DOL Case and Claim Statistics
• Approved Special Exposure Cohorts
• Bulletin 08-12: SEC class designation for workers at the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) in Apollo, Pennsylvania from January 1, 1957, through December 31, 1983
• Circular 18-04: Updating information regarding employment by the Nuclear Material and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC)

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 047, 080: “Atomic Weapons Employer (AWE) employees who were monitored or should have been monitored for exposure to ionizing radiation while working at the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) in Apollo, Pennsylvania from January 1, 1957 through December 31, 1983, for a number of work days aggregating at least 250 work days or in combination with the work days within the parameters established for one or more other classes of employees in the Special Exposure Cohort.”
• Work Site Information

Other Resources

• Waste Lands-America’s Forgotten Nuclear Legacy Database