[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Joslyn Manufacturing FUSRAP SITE, Fort Wayne, IN

[Lenny Siegel]

Feds vague on city uranium site
Corps of Engineers downplays risk

Dan Stockman
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (IN)
January 11, 2009

Almost four years after saying they would examine the site, federal 
officials are still unsure whether they will clean up the radioactive 
legacy of their atomic weapons program.

 From 1943 to 1952, Joslyn Manufacturing and Supply Co. used its plant 
at 2400 Taylor St. to mill radioactive uranium into fuel rods for atomic 
power plants. The plant has changed hands several times since then; it 
is now owned by Valbruna Slater Stainless, a subsidiary of Italy-based 
Acciaierie Valbruna SpA.

A 1952 study by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission showed workers were 
exposed to levels of uranium dust during the milling process far above 
what was allowed – it documented workers cleaning up uranium dust from 
cutting operations with brooms and dustpans. Several of the buildings 
used at the time still exist.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090111/LOCAL/901110396/1002/LOCAL

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