Missouri school’s worst fears come true as reports confirm radioactive contamination from WWII nukes
FLORISSANT, MISSOURI: According to a new report by environmental investigation consultants, there is considerable radioactive contamination in a St Louis suburban elementary school where nuclear weapons were made during the second world war. The report about contamination was confirmed by Boston Chemical Data Corp which took place at Jana Elementary School in the Hazelwood School District in Florissant. It was previously raised by Army Corps of Engineers study.
As per the reports of St Louis Post-Dispatch, the new report is based on samples taken in August from the school. “I was heartbroken,” said Ashley Bernaugh, president of the Jana parent-teacher association who has a son at the school. “It sounds so cliché, but it takes your breath from you.” The elementary school sits in Coldwater Creek flood plain, which was contaminated by nuclear waste from weapons production. During World War II, the waste was dumped at sites near the St Louis Lambert International Airport, next to the creek that flows to the Missouri River. For more than two decades, the Corps has been cleaning up the creek.
