In conjunction with a team from several companies, we have produced technical basis documents and site profiles to support historical dose reconstruction under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Act (EEOICPA).  EEOICPA is intended to compensate worthy cancer victims who are former employees of the Atomic Energy Commission and its successor agencies and contractor organizations.

We have contributed to documentation of historic activities at the following sites: 

1. •Rocky Flats Plant.  The Rocky Flats plant was located approximately 20 miles northwest of Denver, Colorado.  It machined Pu-239 to manufacture classified triggers for nuclear weapons. Rocky Flats operated from the early 1950s until 1989 and was completely decommissioned and demolished by 2005.  We were involved in the successful defense of the RFP Special Exposure Cohort in 2007.
   

                                  

1. •  Weldon Spring Plant.  Mallinckrodt, Inc. operated the plant, located 25 miles west of St. Louis, Missouri, under a contract with the AEC from 1957 to 1966. The plant processed uranium ore concentrates to uranium tetrafluoride and uranium metal. Thorium ore, also a radioactive metal, was processed. The residues from the processing were disposed of in four large open pits.
   

1. •Argonne National Laboratory (ANL-E).   Argonne National Laboratory - East was esablished as the first national laboratory as a result of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, which created the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the national laboratory system. The University of Chicago has operated ANL-E since its creation. The research that ANL-E carried out in the early years as a national laboratory began under the university’s Metallurgical Laboratory, which built the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile 1 (CP-1), under the West Stands of the university’s Stagg Field. CP-1 successfully achieved the world’s first man-made nuclear chain reaction in 1942.
    
   

2. •Lake Ontario Ordnance Works (LOOW).  LOOW, located outside Buffalo, NY, was a storage site for residues of uranium ore processing.  A variety of waste materials were stored beginning in 1944 until the present.  Most of the higher level residues were removed from the site in the mid-1950s.  The site is currently under the purview of the US Army Corps of Engineers, which administers the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Project responsible for the site’s clean up.
   

         

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