Mount Kisco Bedford Times 09.15.2022

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A MONTHLY PUBLICATION SEPT. OCT. ,
VOL. NO.
Mount Kisco and
BACK TO StudentsthroughouttheBedford the atomic bomb
Central School District returned to
Secret WWII uranium re nery leaves lasting mark
SCHOOL! the classroom on September 1. See
more pictures from the start of a
new school year on page 12!

BY CAROL REIF
STAFF WRITER

It’s been more than six de-

cades since it closed up shop,

but a former uranium re nery

is still a hot topic in Mount

Kisco.

In 1943, the facility provid-

ed raw materials – aka highly

radioactive radium and polo-

nium -- for e Manhattan

Project, a secret World War II

undertaking that birthed the

rst deployed atomic bombs.

After the war, Canadian

Radium and Uranium Corp.

switched to making products

for commercial and medical PHOTO: CAROL REIF

uses. A shuttered lumber and building materials center now occupies

en located on land sand- the location.

wiched between the present- Reportedly the rst case of Pregel, whose sentence was

day Kisco Avenue and rail- its kind, it was scrutinized by a suspended, swore to decon-

road tracks, the company rst dozen other states. taminate the property within

gained notoriety in 1957 when Alexander Pregel pleaded three months.

the owners, Russian-born guilty to violating the 1955 However, the company’s

brothers Boris and Alexan- state Industrial Code. e fa- cleanup attempts were less than

der Pregel, were dragged into cility, located in the area of successful, published reports

court by the state Department what is now called 105 Kisco said.

PHOTO COURTESY OF BCSD of Labor for allegedly overex- Ave., ceased operations in SEE RADIUM PAGE 14
posing employees to radiation. 1958.

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