DoomsdaysCW<p>Five revelations about St. Louis’ history with radioactive waste</p><p>By: Allison Kite - July 12, 2023 </p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MissouriIndependent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MissouriIndependent</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MuckRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MuckRock</span></a> spent months scouring thousands of pages of government records about St. Louis’ involvement in the race to build an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtomicBomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicBomb</span></a> during World War II and decades of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contamination</span></a> that followed.</p><p>"Journalists sought to lay bare the degree to which government officials knew of the spreading contamination and the danger it posed to St. Louis County residents.</p><p>"While the contamination at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WestLakeLandfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WestLakeLandfill</span></a> and in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColdwaterCreek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColdwaterCreek</span></a> has been covered extensively for decades, documents obtained by the newsrooms revealed the way federal officials failed to take stronger measures to protect the health of St. Louis-area residents." </p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://missouriindependent.com/2023/07/12/five-revelations-about-st-louis-history-with-radioactive-waste/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">missouriindependent.com/2023/0</span><span class="invisible">7/12/five-revelations-about-st-louis-history-with-radioactive-waste/</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveContamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveContamination</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaintLouisMissouri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaintLouisMissouri</span></a></p>