Re: Last Comment Re Electro Met Production

[NiagaraNet@AOL.COM]

But wait, put the shovel away, there's a pulse on the dead horse..



Radsafers:



Also, since my original statement was that Electromet was the "largest 

producer for the Manhattan Engineering District" (I did say "and beyond"--to be 

fair), your (Ms. Westbrook's) figures are showing a very small three month period, 

with one of the months being a projection for both Niagara's 

Electrometallurgical Works and St. Louie's Mallinckrodt Chemical Company. 

(Think massive hydroelectricity and carbon electrodes :*)



I submit to you that these dates are not within parameters sufficient to 

support this exchange and claim.



The period of 1942 (as cited in the DOE posting) predates your documents by 

five full years. There is no way, in my opinion, that Mallinkrodt (which was 

first and foremost a chemical company and not a metallurgical company), could 

have possibly surpassed the UCC "Electro-Metallurgical Works." Metallurgy WAS 

their primary business and associated companies of theirs did refinement. I will 

also mention that Union Carbide became Union Carbide Nuclear at one point in 

time. This expertise was gained at the hearth of Niagara.



It is preposterous to believe that a chemical company surpassed a 

metallurgical company in the production of a metal, wouldn't you think logically? 

As a side bar--Mallinckrodt and St. Louis had not the power capacity that 

Niagara did.



Since I mentioned that EMet was also a big producer beyond the 1942 to 1946 

MED timeframe, I will also submit to you that you have only provided a short 

three month period that predates the 1953 timeframe as noted by the DOE by 

another five years.

Five in front missing and five in the back should not be considered an 

accurate accounting of what went on in an industrial location such as Niagara Falls.



I am only stating what I see as a possible deficiency in your reconstruction 

work.



Regards,

L.H. Ricciuti

NiagaraNet@aol.com 

"It's not in the dosimetry, it's in putting the right numbers in the correct 

columns and the quality of the interpretation."

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