Radioactive Waste

‘I do feel hopeful,’ says Dawn Chapman, co-founder of Just Moms STL. ‘It’s just — I’m tired.’

Wagner has said she supports helping radiation victims but expressed concern about the cost on Thursday.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is drilling through basement floors in the Cades Cove subdivision of Florissant to determine whether there is radioactive contamination under residents’ homes.

The Missouri House Conservation and Natural Resources Committee on Monday heard testimony on a bill that would transfer $300,000 to a radioactive waste investigations fund created six years ago.

At a tense meeting Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency launched a new effort to get community input on the continuing cleanup of nuclear waste in St. Louis County.

Expansion of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act could have helped with care for people suffering after living near contaminated waterways and sites across Missouri.

Nuclear waste stored outside St. Louis was found to pose a risk to nearby Coldwater Creek as early as 1949. The contaminated creek will finally have warning signs almost 75 years later.

An amendment that extended the funding and expanded it to include parts of St. Louis did not make it into the final defense funding bill. Now St. Louis-area advocates are figuring out their next steps.

Lakes and streams in August A. Busch Memorial Conservation Area were contaminated with uranium from refining efforts in Weldon Spring.

The O’Fallon Republican served a term in the Missouri House in the late 2010s before returning earlier this year.