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Labor Department Pays Ohio’s Nuclear Weapons Workers

By Tom Borgerding | May 24, 2013

70 years ago, Battelle Labs on King Avenue did work to help develop the first atomic bomb. The research proved critical to the American war effort in the mid 1940s. But, the success came at a cost to workers at Battelle and three Ohio nuclear weapons plants. Now, the federal government is paying claims.

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