St. Louis’ long history of radioactive contamination. Highlights of 10 years of Post-Dispatch coverage. Mar 20, 2023 Feds want to test for nuclear waste near Coldwater Creek at St. Louis County park ...

With the recent discovery of radioactive contamination at a St. Louis County school, one in-depth HBO documentary explored the topic of radioactive waste in the region several years ago.

A considerable amount of radioactive waste was found at a Missouri elementary school near St. Louis, according to a new report. In August, Boston Chemical Data Corp. studied soil, dust and plant ...

Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, which refined uranium in downtown St. Louis, stored barrels of K-65, a radioactive residue at the St. Louis airport in deteriorating steel drums.

Communities in north St. Louis County can ask questions about sites contaminated by radioactive waste during a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers open house. Youngkin vetoes contraception, Confederate ...

ST. LOUIS — The federal government and companies responsible for nuclear bomb production and atomic waste storage sites in the St. Louis area in the mid-20th century were aware of health risks ...

LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – Approximately 15,000 pages of newly-disclosed documents reveal that federal agencies knew about the dangers of radioactive contamination in north St. Louis County since as ...

Missouri officials are warning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of a “high likelihood” there is radioactive ...

ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — According to an independent report, an unsafe level of radioactive waste is present inside a north St. Louis County elementary school. The Hazelwood School District allowed ...

In the 1970s, remaining nuclear waste that couldn’t be processed to extract valuable metals was trucked to the West Lake Landfill and illegally dumped. It remains there today. During the Cold War, ...

St. Louis has struggled for decades with remnant radioactive waste from the World War II-era effort to build the world’s first atomic bomb. Uranium was refined in downtown St. Louis for use in the ...