Ferro Electronics to Close

[Downstate Buffaloian]

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20061114/1047047.asp

Here is a little background on this manufacturer.

From Nuclear Lou's Website: http://www.ask.ne.jp/~hankaku/english/niagara_fall.html

"Titanium Alloys Manufacturing (later called TAM Ceramics and today called Ferro Electronics) recycled uranium and thorium metals, and in following years produced zirconium, which was used in military and industrial reactors, for the Manhattan Project, for the Atomic Energy Commission and for commercial use. Ferro Electronics, which is next door to Niagara University, currently manufactures electronic instruments using radioactive zirconium sand of uranium content sufficient to be refined into bomb-grade material".

[nuclearlou]

See also: Artvoice
Notes from the underground
http://artvoice.com/issues/v5n21/notes_from_the_underground
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The concerns should be 1. Who will (pay) clean up? 2. What about stray fission products? 3. What about those pyrophoric fires that keep happening?
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Word is: 230 employees and not 150 as article states. One employee told me this is a downplay on the impact to local economy and human health.