Flacke v. NL Industries, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Spain, J.
From 1958 through 1981, defendant NL Industries, Inc. owned and operated a manufacturing plant in the Town of Colonie, Albany County. There NL produced aircraft components, missile components and military equipment using a manufacturing technique which required, in part, the processing of *889depleted uranium. This process created chips and slivers which were burned in a furnace known as a chip melter. Until 1978, NL vented radioactive uranium 238 from its chip melter directly into the atmosphere; in that same year NL installed a precipitator and a bypass stack on the chip melter in…
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