Hematite Fuel Fabrication Facility, Office, 3300 State Road P, Festus, Jefferson County, MO

Significance: The Hematite Fuel Fabrication Facility, also known as Hematite Former Fuel Cycle Facility and the Westinghouse Electric Company Hematite Facility, was constructed over a period of thirty-one years. The Facility was the first privately owned and operated uranium fuel production plant in the United States. The plant produced nuclear fuel for military as well as peacetime purposes throughout the "Cold War."
The Hematite Fuel Fabrication Facility produced high-enriched nuclear fuel for the U.S. Navy nuclear submarine program and other reactor programs during the "Cold War" years of 1956 to 1974. After 1974 the Facility continued to produce only commercial grade low enriched uranium for commercial nuclear power facilities.
Survey number: HAER MO-113-J