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Vulcan Crucible Steel Company, Building No. 3, 100 First Street, Aliquippa, Beaver County, PA
Summary
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
Tags
Date
1901
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Atomic Energy Commission
Universal Cyclops Specialty Steel Company
H. K. Porter Company
Heritage Box Company
Precision-Kidd Company
Science Applications International Corporation, contractor
U.S. Department of Energy, Former Sites Restoration Division, sponsor
Cole, Alexandra C, historian
Backus, Karl A, photographer
Location
Aliquippa (Pa.), 40.67366, -80.21308
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
