'Atomic Fallout': Records reveal government downplayed, ignored health risks of St. Louis radioactive waste for decades « nuclear-news

In May, almost 50 years after the waste was dumped at West Lake, the Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged what many residents had long feared: Radiological waste was spread throughout the West Lake Landfill, not confined to two specific portions as officials had long maintained. The West Lake Landfill contamination was discovered in 1974. It was designated…

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