Radioactive waste found in St. Louis residential area

The Army Corps of Engineers has found radioactive nuclear weapon waste in residential lots along a St. Louis County creek. Coldwater Creek runs some 20 miles through St. Louis’ northern suburbs and was contaminated in the decades after the Manhattan Project’s activities in the region. The creek has flooded residential areas many times over the past seven decades, but the floodplain had never been tested for radioactive waste until now.
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