More communities are asking the U.S. government to expand compensation for potential radiation exposure that came from processing and testing nuclear fuel and weapons.
Chemicals left from the Manhattan Project were knowingly disposed improperly in St. Louis. Decades later, the material has caused massive environmental concerns, documents show.
Records have revealed that government officials knowingly disposed toxic chemicals improperly while trying to convince the people of St. Louis that the site was cleaned.
The radioactive waste from a WWII-era factory has long been the region’s dirty little secret. With devastating cancer rates, one community is still suffering.
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