Introduction

When the U.S. Department of the Army constructed the Weldon Spring Ordnance Works prior to the United State’s involvement in World War II, the landscape of the Weldon Spring area changed forever. Gone were the towns and 576 inhabitants of Howell, Hamburg, and Toonerville and in their place grew the nation’s largest explosives manufacturing plant. The Weldon Spring area became a new chapter in the nation’s history books.

In 1955, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, (the predecessor to the U.S. Department of Energy), converted a portion of the site into the Weldon Spring Uranium Feed Materials Plant. From 1957 to 1966, uranium ore was processed at the plant for the nation’s nuclear weapons industry. Another legacy was started and another chapter of history was written.

In 1986, the U.S. Department of Energy established an office on this site and the effort to clean up the former uranium processing plant was started. The successful completion of the Weldon Spring Site Remedial Action Project (WSSRAP) disposal cell in 2001 completes another chapter in the history of Weldon Spring.

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