Radioactive Waste Found at Missouri Elementary School

Radioactive Waste Found at Missouri Elementary School
Water flows in Coldwater Creek behind a row of homes at Belcroft Drive and Old Halls Ferry Road in Missouri's St. Louis County on Dec. 9, 2021. Christian Gooden/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP
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FLORISSANT, Mo.—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.

The report by Boston Chemical Data Corp. confirmed fears about contamination at Jana Elementary School in the Hazelwood School District in Florissant raised by a previous Army Corps of Engineers study.