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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Nuclear contamination in the St. Louis region dates back to the 1940s. Documents show leaders of Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, which processed uranium in St. Louis, knew of the contamination risks in 1949.