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Harshaw Chemical
From Brooklyn Centre Wiki
Location: 1000 Harvard Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44109
- Aside from the usual chemicals, Harshaw was also processing radioactive materials from August 1942 to 1955.
- They were providing feed material, for the Oak Ridge facility in Tennessee, in the form of Uranium hexafluoride. As early as October of 1942, they were producing 700 pounds per day.
Some of this material was used to produce the "Little Boy" atom bomb that bombed Hiroshima.
- The news of this was probably a complete surprise to nearby residents in the St. Barbara's Church parish. It's likely that even employees of the plant, who did not have the proper clearance, were aware of what was going on in some portions of the plant. If radioactive emissions were affecting the neighborhoods up the hill from the plant, it might be the cause for the children known to have had, and died from, Leukemia. (Andrew Minich and James Wodzisz)
My husband's uncle, Raymond Kapusta, worked there and never once even alluded to something like this.
--Sandy 09:46, 2 March 2007 (PST) Sandra Rozhon
