ORAU TEAM Dose Reconstruction Project for NIOSH

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Building or area location Operations Radionuclides
Building B–Metals Plant First floor: small-scale
metals production, fuel
pellet production,
materials testing
Second floor: Pu-238
pacemakers
Building B–Machine Shop Occasional machining of
clad or unclad uranium,
and clad plutonium and
U-233; fabrication and
repair of new and
contaminated equipment
from Parks Township and
Building C, Type II Facility
or T-2 Plant
Apollo; machining of DU
HEU processing to form
sintered product
First floor: DU, UO2, U3O8,
UF4, fully clad U-233, U-235,
and Pu-239
Second floor: Pu-238powered
heart pacemakers
Fully clad U-233 and Pu-239
and clad or unclad U-235
(any enrichment), primarily
DU contamination and could
include HEU, Pu, Th, and
mixed FPs
HEU (1973–1978), soluble
chloride/oxide complexes,
SNM oxides (UO3, UO2 and
U3O8)
Period of
operation
1963–1974
1963–1964
1964–1980
1969–1980
Outdoor Scrap Storage
Area
Storage UF6 cylinders 1971–1980
a. Sources: Author unknown (2004), Author unknown (undated a), and NUMEC (1963)
Figure 2-5. Parks Township site layout. Plutonium Plant (Building A), Metals Complex
(Building B), and T-2 Facility (Building C) (Austin 1979).
Building B
This complex was a uranium processing facility with the primary radioactive material being DU,
although smaller quantities of NU, thorium, and plutonium were also processed in the building. The
main facilities in Building B were the Hafnium Facility, the Metals Facility, and the Machine Shop.