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Radioactive waste found at Missouri elementary school

By Associated Press
Published October 17, 2022 2:33am ET
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Radioactive waste found at Missouri elementary school
Water flows in Coldwater Creek on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, behind a row of homes at Belcroft Drive and Old Halls Ferry Road in Missouri's St. Louis County. Environmental investigation consultants have found significant radioactive contamination at an elementary school, which sits in the flood plain of Coldwater Creek which was contaminated by nuclear waste from weapons production during World War II. | (Christian Gooden/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

FLORISSANT, Missouri — There is significant radioactive contamination at an elementary school in suburban St. Louis where nuclear weapons were produced during World War II, according to a new report by environmental investigation consultants.

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