Nuclear waste dump has become a tourist attraction Bashny.Net

In St. Charles, Missouri, near Weldon Spring, located a huge pile of rocks, towering above the earth like an ancient tomb. Under this mound there are tons of dangerous waste which produced a chemical plant, located at that place. Today, Weldon spring each year attracts thousands of curious visitors.





They rise to the top of the dome 25 meters high, to look at the posters, which describe the sad history of communities that disappeared in 1940 to make way for the biggest in the world factory of explosives. In the period between 1940 and 1941, the us army bought 17,000 acres of land in St. Charles, outside St. Louis. On this site are placed three lovely towns — Hamburg, Howell and Toonerville. They were immediately evacuated. Hundreds of homes, businesses, churches, schools in the area disappeared within a few months ceased to exist all three cities. A massive factory was established to produce TNT and DNT, to supply the Allied forces during the Second World war.




To work employed more than 5,000 people. By the time when the plant has completed production on 15 August 1945, he produced about 700 million pounds of TNT. After the war the army sold part of the land. Missouri got 7,000 acres, while the University of Missouri bought another 8,000 acres. These areas Reserve Memorial Bush and Weldon spring. A small tract of land – approximately 2,000 acres — was retained by the atomic energy Commission of the United States. Here he built enterprise for processing uranium ore in 1955.





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