Re: Last Comment Re Electro Met Production

[Fred_Haywood@urscorp.com]

These discussions about Electromet, Linde, and Mallinckrodt bring memories

of my experiences in a DOE program that led to FUSRAP. I recommend the

following report for basic information on individual corporate activity: A

Background Report for the Former Utilized Manhattan Engineer

District/Atomic Energy Commission Sites Program, DOE/EV-0097, September

1980.  One of the nice features of this document is that it is an unbiased

summary of the MED background along with a decent brief description of

activities at individual facilities in 24 states.The document may still be

available from NTIS.



Electromet did make large quantities of metal billets through 1953 under

contract No. W-7405-eng-14. The feed material was not ore concentrate. It

was UF4 provided by Linde Air Products Corporation, another MED contractor.

Linde also provided uranium feed material to X-10 and K-25, as well as

large quantities of liquid nitrogen and nickel to K-25. Mallinckrodt made

some metal but that was not its main activity.



Fred Haywood



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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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