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The Fernald Closure Project is a program run by the United States Department of Energy to clean up the former uranium processing site Fernald Feed Materials Production Center. In 1990, Congress approved closure of the site and environmental cleanup of the facility.
Fernald Feed Materials Production Center: The Fernald Feed Materials Production Center was built in Crosby Township, Ohio in 1951, and decommissioned in 1989. Fernald processed uranium trioxide and uranium tetrafluoride, among other radioactive materials, to produce the uranium fuel cores for nuclear weapons.
Fernald Feed Materials Production Center gained notoriety when it was learned that the plant was releasing millions of pounds of uranium dust into the atmosphere, causing major radioactive contamination of the surrounding areas. That same year, employee Dave Bocks, a 39-year-old pipefitter, disappeared during the facility's graveyard shift and ...
Fernald Feed Materials Production Center; Frenchman Flat; Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program; H. Hanford Site; K. K-25; Kansas City National Security Campus;
While serving as attorney general, Anthony Joseph Celebrezze fought a legal battle against the United States Department of Energy over the nuclear and chemical pollution at the Fernald nuclear weapons plant, which for years had been kept secret under the disguise of the Fernald Feed Materials Production Center. The legal victory gave the Ohio ...
The Mallinckrodt "K-65 residues" were later moved to the Feed Materials Production Center, a Cold War era uranium refinery at Fernald, OH (outside of Cincinnati) which commenced operations in 1951. The refining of "K-65" ore was continued at Fernald.
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The camp was located 2 miles (3.2 km) from Fernald Feed Materials Production Center. In 1984, Fernald was revealed to be a uranium processing plant that was sending radioactive contamination into the air. Westinghouse Materials Company, which took over the plant in 1986, installed civil defense sirens at the camp to warn of any problems at the ...