Schools, Colleges and Civic Centers on Toxic Waste sites in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut
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This article will list the Schools, Colleges and Civic Sites of NY, NJ and CT and the cover up by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that removed my hometown from their ADAMS database to cover up the EPA Superfund Site, the Gammator irradiation device in Glen Ridge High School, and the building of new housing on the Westinghouse Uranium Processing Plant in Bloomfield NJ.
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- 37 Schools – mostly High Schools but some elementary and pre-schools – see lists below
- 33 University sites – see lists below
- 39 Civic Sites (parks government services etc.) – see lists below
- 9 Nuclear Accidents including the nuclear fires at the Westinghouse uranium processing plant in Bloomfield NJ which has been developed for real estate.
- 12 Nuclear waste sites dumping at sea including the Walker Trucking site that is now an elementary school in New Britain CT
- 81 Chemical Biological Radiological sites and Chemical Warfare bases
- 303 Nuclear Radiation Sites
- 100 Chemical Company Sites and Asbestos Sites
Radiation Experiments in Schools and Gammator 50 Irradiator Device
During the 1950’s the Office of Civil Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission created a program for all local schools nationwide to conduct radiation experiments. Usually this involved radioactive seeds to be planted in soil but unfortunately they also taught how to use Geiger Counters by placing large cardboard mats in gyms and contaminating them with a radio-isotope such as Cobalt 60 for the students to use the Geiger Counters to find the radiation and then mark with chalk where the readings are located. This was done nationwide but the initial testing ground was the schools of Connecticut:
Experiments with Radioactivity. United States: National Science Teachers Association, 1958:
- Fairfield Warde High School – Fairfield, CT
- Greenwich High School – Greenwich, CT
- Long Lots Junior High School now the Elementary School – Westport, CT
- Milford High School, Milford, CT
- McKinley Elementary School, Fairfield CT
- Staples High School – Westport, CT
- Stratford High School – Stratford, CT
- West Side Middle School – Groton, CT
- West Side Middle School – Groton, CT
- Wooster Junior High School – Stratford, CT
Unfortunately before January 31, 1961, the safety levels for radiation exposure was 300 mrems of radiation per week when today it is 100 mrems per year and the lowest legal exposure from any one specific location today is 10 mrems per year for civilians.
The radiation experiments were designed to train the students how to find hot spots and was of interest because of the fallout from the Nuclear tests in Nevada was raining down onto US cities and the Army needed to know the extent of their contamination nationwide to measure the effectiveness of the nuclear weapons to ruin a society. The Office of Civil Defense sent out 15000 kits counters to schools, and civil defense officials all over America.
The more enterprising schools decided to irradiate their own seeds and tissue samples and they bought irradiation devices that were meant for research institutions. My High School had one of these in our physics classroom, just sitting there in a little room off of the physics room and sometimes it would be used, but it was very heavy and weighed over a ton. It was unattended and required regular inspections that did not take place, the Atomic Energy Commission noted that in their reports. Leak testing was required to make sure it was safe.
Nuclear Waste dumped at sea, Nuclear Disasters, incinerators, irradiators Map – the blue radiation symbols designate the location of irradiator devices sold by RAMCO including the “Gammator 50” irradiation devices.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Cover-Up
I documented the contamination and the specifications of the Gammator 50 Irradiation device on my Glen Ridge New Jersey website and fortunately I used screen shots of the documents as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission removed the documents from their ADAMS database.
Someone at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission made a decision to remove all their records of this device in Glen Ridge as well as the records of the 1980s EPA Superfund Cleanup of the Town. First they just erased the town of Glen Ridge, NJ from the database but later they restored the record to start in 1989. The first record that exists today mentioning the EPA Superfund site refers to a lawsuit against Safety Light Corporation in Bloomfield where the residents of the Superfund Site thought that they were responsible for the contamination of the town. (11/16/1989 – Safety Light Corporation, Safety Light Legal, 1989, #2).
Radon Gas became a popular item in the news from the cleanup. Unfortunately Radon Gas just doesn’t disappear it goes through nuclear decay and one of the resulting isotopes is Radioactive lead 210 which has a half life of 28.22 years and so when you hear government officials saying that radon gas just disappears they are misleading you.
Schools – Gammator Irradiator Devices:
- Bayley Ellard High School – Madison, NJ
- Burlington Township High School – NJ
- Butler High School – NJ
- Foran High School – Milford, CT Glen Ridge High School – Glen Ridge, NJ
- Irvington High School – Irvington, NJ
- Mary Help of Christians Academy – North Haledon, NJ
- Montville Township High School – NJ
- Mother Cabrini High School – Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, New York
- Parsippany Hills High School – Morris Plains, NJ
- Patchogue-Medford High School – Medford, NY
- Pompton Lakes High School – Pompton Lakes, NJ
- Ridgefield Memorial High School – Ridgefield, NJ
- St. Aloysius Elementary Academy, Saint Aloysius High School, Jersey City, New Jersey
- St. Augustine Preparatory School – Richland, NJ
- Saint Joseph Hill Academy High School- Staten Island, NY Shore Regional High School – West Long Branch, NJ
- Tappan Zee High School – Orangeburg, NY
- William A. Shine Great Neck South High School NY
Colleges “Gammator 50” Irradiator Devices
- Adelphi University – Garden City, NY
- Brooklyn College
- Dominican University New York – Sienna House – Orangeburg, NY
- Fairleigh Dickinson University – Teaneck, NJ
- Farmingdale State College NY
- Hofstra University – Hempstead, NY
- Rochester Institute of Technology Rutgers University – Newark Campus, Newark State College
- Saint Elizabeth University – Morristown, NJ
- Saint John’s University – NY, NY
- St. Joseph’s University, New York – Brooklyn
- University of Connecticut – Storrs, CT
Civic Sites – “Gammator 50” Irradiator Devices
- Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center – NJ
- Hospital for Special Surgery NYC NYU HOSPITAL
- New York State Department of Health in Albany
Other Schools of Concern
- A.I. Prince Technical School on site of HARTFORD STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE – Hartford, CT – radiation cleanup site limited to 25 mrems per year
- Beginning With Children Charter School 2 – Middle School – Brooklyn NY – on site of Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc., 1955-1958
- Carteret Field Glen Ridge NJ 1980’s EPA Superfund Site removed from the NRC ADAMS Database in 2023 after I posted articles on the contamination
- CCSU Early Learning Program Inc., New Britain is on the site of nuclear waste disposal site of Walker Trucking Co. which packaged nuclear waste for dumping at sea. In the NY Metropolitan Area Map the next icon is the dumping site in the Atlantic Ocean.
- Elmora Youth League baseball fields, Elizabeth NJ – on site of KELLEY & CO., Nuclear Waste Disposal
- Fowler High School Football Stadium, Syracuse NY across the street from Asbestos Filter Company Cambridge Corp, 1953
- Harrison High School – Harrison, NJ – on the Shriver & Co Inc., Asbestos plant, 1960
- Lindbergh Baseball Field and Carlstadt Public School in Carlstadt, NJ next to CURTISS-WRIGHT CORP., ELECTRONICS DIV. which in 1956 and 1958 AEC SUPPLIERS OF ISOTOPE MATERIALS AND SERVICES
- John H. Ryan Park – Norwalk, CT – is on site of Miller-Stephenson Chemical Co Inc.
- Mi High School NY at 236 W 17th St. NY, NY today. At 240 W 17th St, New York, NY the following radiological companies operated in 1960: TERMINAL RADIO INTERNATIONAL LTD, Precision Radiation Instruments, Inc., Reuter-Stokes Electronic components, Inc., VICTOREEN INSTRUMENT CO., all produced radiological equipment and including for neutron radiation.
- Mount Prospect Park – Clifton, NJ – next to Pfizer & Co., Inc., Charles, Chemical Sales Div. – 1960
- Monmouth County Vocational School District Neptune Annex adjacent to SIGNALITE (GENERAL INSTRUMENT CORP. SIGNALITE DIV) – radiation cleanup site limited to 25 mrems per year
- Park Elementary School – Newark, NJ – across street diagonally from Bart Labs & Design, Inc.1960 – Beryllium, and control rods for nuclear reactors
- Windsor HS Baseball Field – across the street and two houses down from what was Semi-Elements Inc., J. F. White & Co – Radioactive Isotopes
Universities
Army Biological Warfare Contracts
- Brooklyn College – Bioweapons Lab Army contract: Sep-1961
- Columbia University – Bioweapons Lab Army Contract: Jun-1954
- Cornell University – Bioweapons Lab – Army Contracts – Mar-1953, Mar-1955
- Fordham University – Bioweapons Lab University – Bioweapons Lab – Army Contracts – Feb 1967, Feb 1966
- New York Institute of Technology – Long Island Campus – Old Westbury, NY
- Syracuse University – Bioweapons Lab – Army Contracts – Jan 1969, Apr 1970
- The Research Foundation for SUNY – Albany, NY – Bioweapons Lab Army Contracts: Sep 1963, Jun 1964
- Rutgers–New Brunswick, NJ – Bioweapons Lab US Army Contracts: Sep-1951, Sep-1953, Aug 1960, Aug 1965
- Wesleyan University – Bioweapons Lab US Army Contracts: Apr-1955, Apr-1953
- Yale University – Bioweapons Lab World War I and II
Other College Sites
- Camden County College Camden NJ Campus on Solartron Inc. 1960 made industrial X Ray Equipment
- City College of NYC Downtown same site as Anaconda Co Uranium Mining
- Columbia University Pupin Cyclotron Lab – Manhattan Project Site
- Cornell University – sold radio-isotopes in 1951 – Cleanup set to 25 mrems per year
- Nevis Labs Columbia University – Cleanup set to 25 mrems per year
- NEWARK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING – Mt Laurel Township, NJ – Cleanup set to 25 mrems per year
- NYU School of Professional Studies – same location as VITRO CORP. OF AMERICA which sold Uranium Carbide which is nuclear fuel for reactors
- The New School in same building as Beryllium Corporation – NYC, 1960
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory fire 1970
- Yale University – 1956 AEC supplier of radio-isotopes
Civic Sites
- New York County Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse and US Southern District of NY Courthouse on the U. S. RADIUM CORP site
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York on site of former Hooker Chemical Company that gave us Love Canal which is in their district.
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden – 1957 AEC license
- Caledonian Hospital – Brooklyn, NY – AEC license 1956-1957
- Connecticut State Marshals Office in New Haven at Asbestos Company Site – Fitzsimmons, Hugh J
- De Galle Field – New Haven, CT – across street from Macalister Bicknell of Conn Inc. Chemicals 1960
- Elmora Youth League baseball fields – Elizabeth NJ – on site of KELLEY & CO., Nuclear Waste Disposal
- Family Home Care Services of Brooklyn & Queens, Inc. – Brooklyn, NY – , on site of Durlach Can & Iron Works – Shielded cabinets for nuclear work – lead for shielding
- Grace-New Haven Community Hospital- AEC license expired in 1961
- Greenwich Police Department – Greenwich, CT – on site of AMF ATOMICS, INC. DIV. AMERICAN MACHINE & FOUNDRY CO. – built nuclear reactors, 21 Test Reactors for institutions worldwide.
- Jamaica Hospital Nursing Home on site of Patterson, Moos &Co., Inc., and Magnex Corp., both built Portable Nuclear Reactors and counters. Patterson Moos also sold radio-isotopes
- Mountainside Medical Center, Montclair, NJ- radiological accident where someone placed a radio-isotope in a microwave to heat it up and it exploded
- New York Public Library across street from the Atomic Center for Instruments & Equipment, Inc. – radio-isotopes, cobalt, radium, and Atomlab, Inc., which sold radiological equipment
- SCO Family of Services – Brooklyn, NY – on the site of the former ANTON ELECTRONIC LABS., INC. – NY – radiological equipment, neutron ionization chambers, radio-isotopes, counters
- United Way of New York City @ 1960 General Controls Co. – Fuel Elements and 1958 Bendix International Division which made fuel elements and ionization chambers
- Wayne Friends and Family Park located on WR Grace Thorium Processing Plant – Wayne NJ – 1947-1970 – why put playground equipment on a thorium plant?
Other Sites
- CBS Sports, Inside Edition in same building as the Seiko Radium and Tritium watch dial factory. 57th and 11th Avenue
- WPIX 11 NY same building as Cleaver-Brooks Special Products – Radioactive Waste Treatment
- Garden City News located on AEROJET – GENERAL NUCLEONICS – produced research nuclear reactors and Hydrazine rocket fuel 1960
- Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory Nuclear Waste Incinerator – Ballston Spa, NY
- New Haven’s Winchester Housing built IN Uranium Processing plant – Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp
- Uranium for Manhattan Project stored in Staten Island next to the Bayonne Bridge (Active Cleanup in progress)
- US immigration Court, Newark, NJ – at PICKER X-RAY CORPORATION which was cleaned up to 25mrems per year
Radiation Standards and Burying Nuclear Waste
Nuclear radiation companies often buried nuclear waste on the site. WR Grace did that in the Thorium plant in Wayne NJ and so naturally the cleanup turned the site into a playground for children.
January 31, 1961 Radiation Standards for Safety were published in the National Register which first introduced safety regulations for civilians set at 500 mrems per year. This would be changed in 1991 to 100 mrems per year.
The previous radiation standards were 300 mrems of radiation per week if you were under the age of 45 and 600 mrems per week if you were older than 45. Before 1948 they were double that amount. They were only concerned with preventing radiation sickness and they did not know the danger of radiation.
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