BTMed screens former construction workers from 35 DOE sites across the USA. Select a covered site on the map for more information about each site.
| Alaska | Amchitka Island Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 Amchitka Island was a test site for three underground nuclear detonations: the Long Shot detonation fired on October 29, 1965, the Milrow on October 2, 1969, and the Cannikin November 6, 1971. Covered Years: 1965 - 1973, 5/25/2001 - 10/13/2001. Site Map |
| California | De Soto Avenue Facility Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 The De Soto Avenue Facility worked on engineering design, construction, and nuclear fuel fabrication for test reactors. The facility also had a radiochemistry laboratory and a gamma irradiation facility. Covered Years: 1959 - 1995, 1998 (Remediation). Site Map |
| California | Downey Facility Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 The Downey Facility housed a 2 MeV Van De Graaff accelerator and a four-watt Water Boiler Neutron Source Reactor. The reactor was later moved to Area IV of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, while other operations moved to the Canoga Avenue facility. Covered Years: 1948 - 1955. Site Map |
| California | Area IV, Santa Susana Field Lab Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 The Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) is divided into four sections, with nuclear activities taking place in Area IV. Projects included the Nuclear Development Field Laboratory, the Organic Moderated Reactor, the Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power (SNAP) Program, and many others. Potential for beryllium exposure existed at the site during its history of use and remediation. Covered Years: 1955 - 1988, 1988 - present (remediation). Site Map |
| California | Canoga Avenue Facility Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 The Canoga Avenue Facility performed research and development into peaceful applications of nuclear energy, involving radiochemistry and beryllium machining. It took on equipment and personnel that had moved from the Downey Facility. Covered Years: 1955 - 1960. Site Map |
| Colorado |
Rocky Flats Plant
Outreach Office CO Colorado Building & Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO
4740 Harlan Street, Suite 220 Denver, CO 80212 Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 Phone: 1-720-987-1296 Rocky Flats produced bomb components, manufacturing plutonium triggers used to assemble nuclear weapons. It was also responsible for recycling plutonium from scrap and plutonium retrieved from retired nuclear warheads. Covered Years: 1951 - 2006. Site Map Interviewer - Maria Rivas-Adams Maria began at the Rocky Flats Outreach Office in 2006 as part of her work with the Labor's Community Agency, AFL-CIO. She currently continues those duties as part of the Colorado BCTC. |
| Florida | Pinellas Plant Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 Pinellas produced precisely-timed neutron generators used to initiate nuclear explosions. It also fabricated other weapons components including lightning-arrestor connectors, specialty capacitors, crystal resonators, magnetics, and optoelectronic devices. Covered Years: 1957 - 1997, 1999, 2008 - 2009. Site Map |
| Georgia | Savannah River Site Outreach Office 1250 A Reynolds St. Augusta, GA 30901 Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 Office: 1-706-722-7272 Mobile: 1-706-564-1480 SRS was central to the production of plutonium and tritium. Many facilities were built at SRS to support these production efforts including five nuclear reactors, two chemical separation plants (also known as canyons), a nuclear fuel and target fabrication facility, a heavy water plant, and waste management facilities. Covered Years: 1950 - Present. Site Map Interviewer/Outreach - Gary Hom Gary has over 41 years with the IBEW of which over 20 years was spent working at Savannah River Site. |
| Idaho | Argonne National Laboratories - West Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 Phone: 1-208-241-7398 ANLW was located within the boundaries of INL and later was merged with INL. Two reactors were developed and operated at ANLW. Highly enriched uranium spent fuel was reprocessed there. Covered Years: 1949 - 2005. |
| Idaho | Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 Phone: 1-208-241-7398 INL was the primary nuclear reactor development laboratory in the United States. Over 100 reactor concepts were conceived and tested there. The processing plant at INL reprocessed spent nuclear fuel from naval propulsion, test, and research reactors to recover enriched uranium for reuse in nuclear weapons production. Covered Years: 1949 - Present. Site Map Interviewer - Dan Obray A third generation painter, Dan worked at INL as a member of IUPAT Local 764. He started with BTMed in 2005. |
| Kansas | Kansas City Plant Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 Phone: 1-913-645-3649 KCP manufactured nonnuclear components for nuclear weapons. Electrical, electromechanical, mechanical, and plastic components are manufactured or procured by this facility. Covered Years: 11/5/1948 - Present. Site Map Outreach Coordinator - Mike Wegley Mike is a retired member of Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 533. He worked for a decade in all areas of the Kansas City Plant—including the beryllium processing areas and those with ionizing radiation, asbestos, and PCBs. |
| Kentucky | Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Outreach Office 1930 N 13th Street Paducah, KY 42001-2440 Toll Free: 1-888-464-0009 Phone: 1-270-443-2850 Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant enriched uranium for nuclear weapons. During the plant's Cold War history, more than one million tons of uranium was processed there. Covered Years: 1951 - Present. Site Map Interviewer - Ronnie Peck Ronnie is a retired member of Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 184. He worked at Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant for five years. |
| Michigan | Adrian Facility (Bridgeport Brass) Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 Phone: 1-513-681-0864 Bridgeport Brass operated a special metals extrusion press to produce uranium fuel elements for the Hanford and Savannah River Site reactors. It also did developmental extrusion work with thorium and slightly enriched uranium. After the site's closure most of its functions were transferred to Reactive Metals Inc in Ashtabula, Ohio. Covered Years: May 25, 1954-1962; (remediation) 1995. Site Map |
| Missouri | Mallinckrodt Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 The Mallinckrodt Chemical Company conducted milling and recovery operations with uranium chemical compounds at the St. Louis Downtown Site (also known as the Destrehan Street Plant). The plant refined uranium ore, ultimately producing uranium metal. Covered Years: 8/13/1942 - 1962, 1995. Site Map |
| Missouri | Weldon Spring Site Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 Weldon Spring manufactured explosives and processed uranium-ore. It was a Uranium Feed Materials Plant used for uranium refining activities. Covered Years: 1955 - 1966, 10/1/1985 - 2002 (remediation). Site Map |
| Nevada | Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 Yucca Mountain exploratory study is a five-mile long tunnel bored into the site for the purpose of testing the underground characteristics of the site to determine its suitability for the permanent safety storage of high level nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel. No radioactive materials have been shipped to Yucca Mountain for storage. Covered Years: 1987 - Present. Site Map |
| New Mexico | Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 Phone: 1-720-987-1296 WIPP is the first deep geologic repository for the permanent disposal of transuranic radioactive waste resulting from the research and production of nuclear weapons. Covered Years: 3/26/1999 - Present. Site Map |
| New York | Brookhaven National Laboratory Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-888-464-0009 BNL continues to conduct research in high-energy and nuclear physics and in other areas of science. Covered Years: 1947 - Present. Site Map |
| New York | Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 The Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory originally provided technical support for the chemical separation of plutonium and uranium at the Hanford and Savannah River sites. It also developed nuclear power reactor technology, which transitioned into research for navy submarine propulsion after 1950. By the end of the decade, it had fully transitioned to naval nuclear propulsion work, designing propulsion systems for many nuclear-powered sea vessels. Throughout the course of its operations, the potential for beryllium exposure existed at this site, due to beryllium use, residual contamination, and decontamination activities. Covered Years: 1947 - Present. Site Map |
| New York | West Valley Demonstration Project Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 In 1980, the Congress passed the West Valley Demonstration Project Act which authorized DOE to conduct a technology demonstration project to solidify the liquid high-level waste at site. DOE is also responsible for developing containers suitable for the permanent disposal of the solidified high-level waste; transporting the containers; disposing of low level waste and transuranic waste generated by high level waste solidification; and decontaminating and decommissioning facilities used for the solidification. Covered Years: 1980 - Present. Site Map |
| Ohio | Extrusion Plant (Reactive Metals Inc. - Ashtabula) Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-888-464-0009 Phone: 1-513-681-0864 Ashtabula (formerly known as Reactive Metals, Inc.) received uranium for processing that involved the extrusion and/or forging of depleted, normal and slightly enriched uranium metal, as well as experimental quantities of thorium metal. Covered Years: 1962 - 11/1/2006. Site Map |
| Ohio | Brush Luckey Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 Phone: 1-513-681-0864 Brush Luckey was operated as a beryllium production facility by the Brush Beryllium Company (later Brush Wellman). The site received approximately 1,000 tons of radioactively contaminated scrap steel, to be used in proposed magnesium production. Covered Years: 1949 - 1961, 1992 - Present. Site Map |
| Ohio | Battelle Laboratories - King Avenue & West Jefferson Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-888-464-0009 Phone: 1-513-681-0864 The Battelle Labs performed atomic energy research and development that involved research on fabrication of uranium and fuel elements, reactor development, submarine propulsion, fuel reprocessing, and the safe use of reactor vessels and piping. Covered Years: 1986-2000 (King Avenue) Site Map, 1986-Present (West Jefferson) Site Map |
| Ohio | Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-888-464-0009 Phone: 1-740-464-4783 Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant was used for isotope separation to produced highly enriched uranium to support nuclear weapons production. Covered Years: 1952 - Present. Site Map Outreach Coordinator - Phil Hamer Phil is a retired member of Laborers Local 83. He worked at Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant monitoring radiation and contamination. |
| Ohio | Mound Plant Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-888-464-0009 Phone: 1-513-681-0864 Mound produced large quantities of polonium. It also developed and produces secondary missions as radioactive waste management and recovery, the use of radioactive materials for nonweapons purposes, and the purification of nonradioactive isotopes for scientific and commercial research. Covered Years: 1947 - Present. Site Map |
| Ohio | GE Evendale Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 Phone: 1-513-681-0864 GE Evendale worked with a variety of radioactive materials, including uranium and thorium. It was also involved in the refining or fabrication of beryllium or beryllium oxide. Covered Years: 1961 - 6/30/1970. Site Map |
| Ohio | Fernald (Feed Materials Production Center) Outreach Office 1550 Chase Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45223 Toll Free: 1-888-464-0009 Phone: 1-513-681-0864 Fernald converted depleted uranium, natural uranium, and low-enriched uranium compounds into uranium metal and fabricated uranium metal into feed stock for fuel and target elements for reactors that produced weapons-grade plutonium and tritium. It also supplied fuel to the nuclear reactors located at Hanford and Savannah River. Covered Years: 1951 - Present. Site Map Outreach Manager - Lou Doll Lou is a long standing member of UA Local 392. He worked for over twenty years at Fernald site as a pipefitter and site steward for the Building Trades Council and its affiliate unions. He started with BTMed in 2005. Interviewer - Dan Hennekes Dan spent 23 years at the Fernald site working as a pipefitter out of the UA Local 392. He started with BTMed in 2006. |
| Ohio | Piqua Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-888-464-0009 Phone: 1-513-681-0864 Piqua contained a 45.5-megawatt (thermal) organically cooled and moderated reactor. Covered Years: 1963 - 2/28/1 Site Map |
| Oregon | Albany Research Center Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 The Albany Research Center was used for metallurgical research and later research into various radioactive materials. It has more recently become a branch of the DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). Covered Years: 1987 - 1993 (remediation), 1995 - Present. |
| Pennsylvania | Shippingport Atomic Power Plant Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 Shippingport was one of the first commercial nuclear power reactors in the U.S. It operated with low-enriched uranium oxide fuel but was converted to a light water breeder reactor using thorium and uranium-233 which would breed plutonium fuel while generating electricity. Covered Years: 1984 - 1995. Site Map |
| Pennsylvania | National Energy Technology Laboratories (NETL) Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 NETL develops technologies for improved components and an improved manufacturing process for rechargeable magnesium batteries in order to address large-scale electrical supply and demand. Covered Years: 1975 - Present. |
| Tennessee | Oak Ridge Reservation (K-25, X-10, Y-12) Outreach Office Pine Ridge Office Complex 702 S. Illinois Ave. Suite B-202 Oak Ridge, TN 37830 Toll Free: 1-888-464-0009 Phone: 1-865-599-9538 Covered Years: 1943 - Present K-25 - K-25 gaseous diffusion plant supplied enriched uranium for nuclear weapons production. It was the first diffusion facility for large-scale separation of uranium-235. Site Map X-10 (Oak Ridge National Laboratory - ORNL) - X-10 was used to construct a test plant that would move the plutonium product process from the research stage to large scale production. Over time, the scope of its work expanded to include the production of isotopes, fundamental hazardous and radioactive materials research, environmental research, and radioactive waste disposal. Site Map Y-12 - Y-12 processed uranium for the first atomic bomb. Its missions have included uranium enrichment, lithium enrichment, isotope separation and component fabrication. Site Map Outreach Coordinator - April Watson April comes from a long family line of asbestos workers/insulators out of Asbestos Workers/Insulators Local 46. She teaches at the East Tennessee Apprenticeship Readiness Program (ETARP), which prepares many for work in the trades on the Oak Ridge site and beyond. |
| Washington | Hanford Nuclear Reservation Outreach Office 2505 Duportail Street Richland, WA 99352 Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 Phone: 1-509-946-1036 Phone: 1-509-947-5564 Hanford was established as a nuclear weapons production site to fabricate reactor fuel and produce plutonium. It consisted of nine nuclear material production reactors and five major chemical separation plants. Covered Years: 8/13/1942 - Present. Site Map Outreach Coordinator – Jim Rogers Jim is a retired member of Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 598. He worked at the Hanford Reservation on several assignments that took him all across the site—from the tank farms and the waste treatment facility to the 100 N Reactor and the 300 Area. |
| West Virginia | Huntington Pilot Plant Outreach Office Toll Free: 1-800-866-9663 The Huntington Pilot Plant supplied nickel powder for use in the Paducah and Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plants. Covered Years: 1951 - 1963, 11/27/1976 - 5/18/1979. Site Map |