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RE: Niagara Falls Electromet
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L. H. Ricciuti
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If you search on
just "DOE Openness: Human Radiation Experiments", you get to a different
Appendix A, the one I mentioned.
I went to the
Appendix A that is reached from the URL you gave below. It does say about
Electromet what you have copied below. But it is still
incorrect.
I verified this by
calling the Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Education, part of Oak Ridge
Associated Universities, which I thought had provided the content to the Web
site. The Web site is a DOE Web site, but the word "orise" is in the URL string
and most of the content seemed to be the sort of thing the
ORISE/ORAU people do. I spoke with Betsy Ellis of ORAU.
Dr.
Ellis confirmed that the statement on the Web site was not correct. She
stated that Electromet only reduced UF4 to U metal and that Electromet was a
low-volume producer of the metal as compared to other sites. She remarked,
before I said anything about it, that she thought that Mallinckrodt was the
biggest producer. Please note that Dr. Ellis and her colleagues have done epidemiological
studies of former Niagara Frontier and other AEC/MED sites, specifically of
worker doses, and have published various papers on the
subject.
I hope that you will
not be offended at my checking your source in this way and that you will accept
this correction as authoritative.
By the way, I have
also been assigned the Harshaw site to work on. If you uncover any interesting
sources of information about that, please pass them along to
me.
Janet Westbrook
Dear Ms. Janet Westbrook and Radsafers:
I have double checked the
reference for Union Carbide Electromet and it is good.
I have a direct
letter from the DOE as well as this web listing that was given previously. I am
very familiar with most aspects of the MED in the WNY/Niagara area.
Please
recheck your source(s).
Once
more--
http://tis.eh.doe.gov/ohre/new/findingaids/epidemiologic/orise/app.html
APPENDIX A
SITES AND CONTRACTORS
Electro Metallurgical Company (Niagara Falls,
New York), a subsidiary of Union Carbide, was the MED's largest ore-to-metal
uranium production plant. From 1942 to 1953, the plant processed uranium
tetrafluoride (green salt) into uranium metal. The plant was also called the
Union Carbide and Chemical Electro-Metallurgical Division Works.
This is a cut and paste of the DOE Openness web site
citation.
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I am interested in activities by
Harshaw Chemical in the WNY area.
Any info?
What is the status with
Titanium Alloys/FERRO?
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Good luck with the dose reconstruction. I did
see that your company was awarded the contract by ORAU. I hope you find my
information helpful.
Please give my regards to David
Dooley.
Sincerely,
L.H. Ricciuti
NiagaraNet@aol.com
"Life is a
daring adventure or nothing at all." Helen Keller
Atoms for
Peace.