Environmental monitoring program for DOE, Weldon Spring, Missouri Site

Technical Report · Sat Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:5914250

Ficker, C F

The Department of Energy's Weldon Spring Site (DOE-WSS) is located in St. Charles Co., Missouri, and is comprised of two properties. One property is a part of the former Feed Materials Center operated by Mallinckrodt Chemical Works from 1956 to 1966. There are four raffinite pits on the property which contain radioactive residues from the processing of uranium ore concentrates, thorium compounds, and recycled scrap. The second property is an abandoned quarry approximately four miles southwest of the raffinite pit area, and is some eight acres in size. The quarry is contaminated as the result of its use as a disposal site first by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and later by the Army during some decontamination work at the Weldon Spring Plant. It is the purpose of this report to present a program for monitoring at the DOE-WSS. Monitoring of the sites is necessary to maintain adequate environmental and health physics surveillance programs to assure the safety of the general public. This program (a) shows currently employed systems of monitoring along with recommendations to bring those systems in line with an overall plan, and (b) discusses programs for future environmental and health physics monitoring at WSS.

• Research Organization: Office of the Publication Board, Washington, DC (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5914250
• Report Number(s): NLCO-009EV-Sp; ON: DE82003282
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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