FLORISSANT, Missouri Eleven months ago, an independent contractor working at Jana Elementary reported finding high levels of radioactive dust on the grounds of this North St. Louis County school. Immediately, the students and their parents, a majority of whom are non-white and often economically underprivileged, were sent scrambling to figure out where else the children would be sent to classes.
A look at why parts of the St. Louis region, including areas along Coldwater Creek and a landfill in St. Louis County, have radioactive waste issues. How did World War II-era work at a Mallinckrodt plant near St. Louis lead to decades of problems storing and then cleaning up radioactive waste?
Since July, 301 truckloads of contaminated dirt have been removed from the bank of Coldwater Creek near Jana Elementary School. The school is still shuttered even though U.S. officials assure
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