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The Rare Earths Facility was a production plant for various chemicals and metals including thorium, uranium, and radium. It was located in West Chicago, Illinois, USA.〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕〔 (based partly on (US EPA NPL narrative )) 〕〔 〕〔 Searchable by license number 12-04932-01 on https://nrctracking.ornl.gov/tlts/ 〕〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕〔 551 F.2d 790 〕〔 〕〔 〕 ==History== The site was opened in 1931 by the Lindsay Light and Chemical Company〔 It processed ores like monazite to produce elements, including thorium and uranium.〔 It also made gaslight mantles〔 and during World War II it made hydrofluoric acid〔 In 1958 it became owned by American Potash and Chemical Company (AMPOT),〔 which at one point had a 'Lindsay Chemical Division'.〔 In 1967 AMPOT, and thus the facility, were bought by Kerr-McGee. In around 1970, Kerr-McGee reorganized and AMPOT became the Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation (KMCC). The Rare Earths Facility was closed by Kerr-McGee in 1973. In 2005 KMCC was spun off from Kerr-McGee as Tronox, shortly before Kerr-McGee was bought by Anadarko Petroleum Corporation. Tronox inherited responsibility for the Rare Earths Facility and other sites. Tronox went bankrupt in 2009 and shareholders sued Anadarko Petroleum, partly for having misled investors in Tronox about its environmental debts.〔〔〔〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rare Earths Facility」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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