Department of Energy, Mound Facility, Isolated Building (I Building), One Mound Road, Miamisburg, Montgomery County, OH
Summary
Significance: Mound's I Building is significant for its operational role in the polonium processing mission of Mound Laboratory during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Radioactive polonium had importance to the nation during that time for its use in nuclear weapons and atomic energy. During the polonium processing era, I Building provided a removed laboratory building for monitoring employee and environmental radiation exposure.
Survey number: HABS OH-2470-I
Building/structure dates: 1948 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1956-1964 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1985 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 2000 Demolished
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Tags
nuclear weapons industry
nuclear power
health care facilities
miamisburg ohio
department
energy
mound
mound facility
isolated
one mound road
miamisburg
montgomery county
ohio
historic american buildings survey
monsato chemical company
us atomic energy commission
us department of energy
photo
ultra high resolution
high resolution
polonium
library of congress
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Monsato Chemical Company
Location
Miamisburg (Ohio)
,
39.62796, -84.28194
Source
Library of Congress
Link
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