[S]
: Supplier of DU metal
[M]:
Manufacturer of DU munitions
United States
Alliant
Techsystems [M]
600
Second Street NE
Hopkins,
MN 55343-8384
http://www.atk.com
http://www.thestandard.com/companies/display/0,2063,15114,00.html
http://www.army-technology.com/contractors/ammunition/alliant/index.html
Primex
Technologies, Inc. [M]
Ordnance
and Tactical Systems Division
10101
Ninth Street North
St.
Petersburg
Florida
33716
A
subsidiary of General Dynamics
http://primextech.com
http://www.rocket.com/lca.html
http://www.thestandard.com/companies/display/0%2C2063%2C53192%2C00.html
Aerojet
Ordnance Tennessee[M;S]
A
GenCorp company subsidiary
(P.O.
Box 13222, Sacramento, California 95813)
http://www.aerojet.com
http://www.fas.org/irp/contract/g.htm
Specialty
Metals
P.O.
Box 399
Jonesborough,
Tennessee 37659
Old
Highway 11
East
Jonesborough, Tennessee 37659
http://www.aerojet.com/hist_70.htm
http://www.companyethics.com/aerojet.htm
http://www.miltoxproj.org/DU/DU_Speech/johnspeech.htm
Munitions
Loading & Packing
604
Spring Street, Socorro, New Mexico 87801
Starmet
Corporation (until 1998: Nuclear Metals Inc.) [M;S]
2229
Main Street
Concord,
MA01742
http://www.starmet.com/uranium.htm
http://www.epa.gov/region01/pr/files/072700b.html
Carolian
Metals, Inc. (Starmet subsidiary)[S]
Highway
80
Barnwell,
SC29812
Edlow
International Company [S]
1666
Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Suite
#500
Washington,
D.C.20009
Nevada
Engineering and Technology
Corporation
[S]
2225
East 28th Street
Long
Beach, California 90806
Sequoyah
Fuels Corporation[S]
P.O.
Box 25861
Oklahoma
City, OK73125
Sequoyah
Fuels[S]
Interstate
I-40 and Highway 10
Gore,
OK74435
U.S.
Department of Energy [S]
Fernald
Environmental Restoration Management
498
Circle Freeway Drive Ste. 222
Cincinnati,
OH45246
Manufacturing
Sciences Corporation[S]
A
BNFL subsidiary since 1997
804
South Illinois Ave.
Oak
Ridge, TN 37830
http://www.mfgsci.com/
Reade Advanced Materials[M;S]
Eastern
Region USA Facility:
Post
Office Drawer 15039
Providence,
Rhode Island USA 02915-0039
Western
Region USA Facility:
Post
Office Drawer 12820
Reno,
Nevada 89510-2820
http://www.reade.com/Products/Elements/uranium.html
Idaho
National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL)
DOE/Bechtel
BWXT Idaho
http://www.inel.gov/
Research
on nuclear waste management
http://www.fetc.doe.gov/dd/docs/quart97/quarter2/disman.htm
background information on the U.S. manufacturers
Alliant Techsystems (was spun off from Honeywell in 1991) and Primex Inc. (Olin Ordnance) are the prime contractors of the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force. Alliant makes large caliber rounds for U.S. tanks (105mm and 120mm anti-tank shells) and howitzers, and small caliber rounds for armoured personnel carriers (25mm) and aircraft (30mm). Alliant has produced over 15 million 30mm PGU-14/B armor piercing incendiary (API) round for the A-10 Thunderbolt Fairchild ground-attack plane (U.S. Air Force) and over one million 120mm M829 (A1/A2) rounds for the U.S. Army.
Sources:
“Profiling
the Small Arms Industry”, Frida Berrigan and Michelle Ciarrocca . Reports
– Weapons at War, Nov. 2000; Arms Trade Resource Center.
Since 1985 Manufacturing Science Corporation (MSC) has converted over 2,700 tons of DU into more than 70,000 products, including aircraft and machinery counterweights, flywheels, radiation shielding for x-ray machines and spent fuel casks, and armor plates for the Abrams Heavy Armor tanks (M1, M1A1, M1A2). MSC has the only DU rolling mill licensed for the commercial use in the U.S.
http://www.bnflinc.com/tn.html
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,356765,00.html
Canada
Eldorado
Resources Limited[M]
One
Eldorado Place
Port
Hope Ontario, Canada
France
COGEMA
[M]
Etablissement
de PierrelatteBP 16
26700
Pierrelatte, France
SICN
(COGEMA Subsidiary) [M;S]
4
Rue du RadarBP 343
74008
Annency, France
CERCA
[M]
Usine
de Bonneuil
16
Route de Stains94380
Bonneuil
Sur Marne, France
Comurhex[S]
Malvesi
Facility, Route de Moussan
B.P.222,
11102 Narbonne, Cedex, France
Groupement
Industriel des Armements Terrestres (GIAT) [M]
1C,
place Georges Clemenceau, 92211 St-Cloud – France
United Kingdom
Royal
Ordnance Ammunition Division /[M]
Royal
Ordnance Specialty Metals, Ltd. /
Ministry
of Defense (MoD)
(PE)
Agency Factor
Cat
and Kittens Lane
Featherstone,
Wolverhampton Staffs WV10 7NX England
Ministry
of Defense
Royal
Armament Research & Development
Establishment
[M]
Fort
Halstead
Seven
Oaks, KentTN14 7BP
Ministry
of Defense, P.E.
Atomic
Weapons Research Establishment [M]
Aldermaston
Reading,
Berks
BAE
Systems
Royal
Ordnance PLC[M]
Ammunition
Division
Euxton
Lane
Chorley,
LancashirePR7 6AD
British
Nuclear Fuels, plc[M]
Springfield
Works, Salwick Preston,
LancashirePR4
0XJ England
Israel
IMI
(TAMI)[M]
Institute
for Research and Dev
P.O.
Box 10140 Haifa Bay, Israel 26111
Russia
JSC
Chepetskiy Mechanical Plant [S,M?]
427620
Russia, Udmurt Republic, Glazov, Belovstreet, 7
http://www.chmz.udm.net/page_eng.shtml
http://www.cdi.org/ArmsTradeDatabase/Regional_and_Country_Information/EUROPE/RUSSIA/Russian_Defense_Business_Directory/Russian_Defense_Business_Directory_Chap_1_Directory_of_Russian_Enterprises.txt
[M:
counterweights, balance weights]
leading
producer in Russia
USA
Aerojet
Ordnance Tennessee (Specialty Metals), Starmet Corporation, Carolian Metals,
Inc., Edlow International Company, Nevada Engineering and Technology Corporation,
Sequoyah Fuels Corporation (Oklahoma City), Sequoyah Fuels (Gore), U.S.
Department of Energy Fernald Environmental Restoration Management
Canada
Eldorado
Resources Limited
France
COGEMA
(Pierrelatte), SICN, CERCA, Comurhex
UK
Royal
Ordnance Ammunition Division /Royal Ordnance Specialty Metals, Ltd./ Ministry
of Defense (MoD), Ministry of Defense Royal Armament Research & Development
Establishment, Ministry of Defense, P.E. Atomic Weapons Research Establishment
Aldermaston, BAE Systems, Royal Ordnance PLC Ammunition Division, British
Nuclear Fuels, plc Springfield Works, Salwick Preston.
United
States of America
United
Kingdom
France
Russia
Israel
Pakistan
Canada
Countries which have DU ammunition in their military arsenals
United
States of America
United
Kingdom
France
Russia
Israel
Pakistan
Taiwan
Turkey
Thailand
Saudi
Arabia
Jordan
United
Arab Emirates
Kuwait
Egypt
Bahrain