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Mapping Manhattan Project radioactive waste across the St. Louis region • MuckRock

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The Missouri Independent, MuckRock and The Associated Press spent months combing through thousands of pages of previously-unreleased government records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act that show radioactive waste was known to pose a threat to people living near Coldwater Creek as early as 1949. Electronic Personal Dosimeter

Mapping Manhattan Project radioactive waste across the St. Louis region • MuckRock

Federal officials repeatedly wrote off potential risks as “slight,” “minimal” or “low-level.”

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Mapping Manhattan Project radioactive waste across the St. Louis region • MuckRock

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