Mallinckrodt Chemical?

[memory_machine]

I was reading a post on UER where someone was asking about stuff to do in St. Louis, and some guy from Wisconsin suggested Mallinckrodt Chemical. I was able to find a little about it, but not a specific area. Does anyone know anything about this?

http://stlouis.missouri.org/neighborhoo ... rial14.htm

He also mentioned a Hazelwood Interm Storage site. I've never heard of that either.

[Chris]

Mallinckrodt is a major St. Louis industry. They're along Broadway in north city.

I would think exploring it would be akin to exploring AB.

[memory_machine]

From the stuff I've read, it seems like there are buildings that have been closed due to contamination. Do you think this is true?

[Chris]

Could be, it's a pretty huge complex.

[bobcat]

Mallinckrodt Chemical was the site of the nation's first uranium enrichment project on a massive basis. They produced the material for the Manhattan project at the U of Chicago. Lots of the waste and demolished buildings were hauled out to Westlake Landfill on St. Charles Rock Rd near Lambert. Some nuclear waste remains in place at Westlake, though most was hauled out to Weldon Springs for entombment in the pyramid of death.

After WWII, uranium enrichment moved out to Weldon Springs, hence the 100 ft tall pyramid of rock covering low level nuclear waste from the production of plutonium out in the county.

Several of the buildings at Mallinckrodt are probably still glow in the dark radioactive, but who knows? DOE? DOD? MDNR?

[fsp]

From the stuff I've read, it seems like there are buildings that have been closed due to contamination. Do you think this is true?

Trust me...you don't want to go in there.
As someone above mentioned, Mal. filled
some defense contracts for the nuclear
weapons program, and many of them were
full of radioactive materials. I dont want to
find out if they are decomtaminated by
suffering heavy radiation exposure. Some of
the "hot" soil was dumped without ceremony
in a corner of Lambert Field. Dont go in Mal.