Operating Engineers Local 18, Laborers Local 245, and Teamsters Local 377, and several subcontractors helped Lata-Sharp with the cleanup, Gaston said.
HISTORY OF THE SITE
In 1962, the Atomic Energy Commission (ATE) located it's 3,850-ton extrusion press and equipment to several empty buildings in Ashtabula, owned by Reactive Metals Inc.
For the next 26 years, the AEC (which later became the DOE) contracted with Reactive Metals (later, RMI), to manufacture metallic uranium tubes, rods, and forged uranium parts for the Cold War nuclear weapons program.
During it's peak production years, the Extrusion Plant provided stable employment for 138 area residents.
RMI obtained a NRC license for it's non-DOE uranium work, which must be terminated by remediation of the site.
In 1988, the need for Cold War weapons production diminished and the DOE began closing it's nuclear weapons production facilities, including the RMI Extrusion Plant.
The 26 years of processing uranium contaminated most of the Extrusion Plant buildings, area soil, and some of the groundwater with uranium, technetium-99 (a fission product from recycled reactor material), and some other non-radioactive hazardous chemicals.
Soon after the closing of the Extrusion Plant, the site mission became Decontamination and Decommissioning (D&D).
- - according to the Ohio Department of Energy's web site.
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