[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, RADIATION: Revere Copper site that collapsed into the Detroit River (MI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Uranium-contaminated site in Detroit was part of Manhattan Project

By Micah Walker
Detroit Free Press (MI)
December 7, 2019

You may know Revere Copper and Brass for cookware and its roots in the era of the American Revolution.

But you may not know the company - which made headlines this week as the former owner of a uranium-tainted storage site in southwest Detroit that partially collapsed into the Detroit River - played a major role in World War II as it was subcontracted in the 1940s to build the world’s first atomic bomb.

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In the early 1940s, civilian production was halted by World War II, as items such as smoke bombs and cartridges and rocket cases were needed for the war. The Revere Copper plant in Detroit became an avionics, weapons and electronics facility in 1943. And it became a beryllium facility from 1946 to 1950.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2019/12/06/uranium-contaminated-site-detroit-tied-manhattan-project/4353455002/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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