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Mar 15, 2017 · The Luminous Processes building was later used a meat locker after that company closed. These buildings were full of radium particles from the days of dial-painting. Today, 16 sites in and...
Jan 30, 2018 · He opened another company to produce radium clock dials. He called it "Luminous Processes" and located it in Ottawa, just a "few blocks away" from Radium Dial, Halm says. "They hired a lot of the same girls." Radium Dial went out of business. Luminous hummed along for decades, until 1976, according to Clark's book.
The company was headed by Joseph A. Kelly Sr. Kelly opened up a new corporation called Luminous Processes Inc. a few blocks away from the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa, Illinois shortly after closing down the Radium Dial Company.
Jan 25, 2018 · In 1978, the same year Luminous Processes closed in Ottawa, Peg Looney's body was exhumed. Earlier, when the Cold War threatened nuclear attacks, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission began to study radiation's effects on humans.
Feb 1, 2018 · By the time the EPA determined the cause, both Radium Dial and Luminous Processes were defunct and couldn't be sued for damages, leaving taxpayers to pick up the tab for cleanup. Slow cleanup Remediation began in the late 1980s, and continues today.
Jul 10, 2022 · This memorial, a sculpture of a 1920's dial painter and plaza on the site of the former LPI factory, is dedicated to the working women of the Radium Dial Company, Luminous Processes, Inc., and dial painters who suffered all over the United States.
Jul 3, 2019 · Radium Dial shut down during the trial, but owner Joseph Kelly opened a new factory just a block away, under a new name: Luminous Processes. He promised safer working conditions and no more lip-pointing, but there was radium everywhere, inside and out.
