Vulcan Crucible Steel Company, Building No. 3, 100 First Street, Aliquippa, Beaver County, PA

Significance: The steel mill equipment in Building 3 - furnaces, cutters, rolling mills, scales - was used in 1948-49 to roll uranium billets into rods for use in nuclear breeder reactors. This work was part of a nationwide fabricating effort immediately after World War II to create atomic weapons as part of President Harry Truman's 1947 Cold War policy of military supremacy over Russia.

Survey number: HAER PA-278-A

Building/structure dates: ca. 1901 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1948 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1950 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1978 Subsequent Work

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