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12/15/2015 / By Tara Paras

US Government dumps nuclear waste near playground, now furious residents have cancer

Mallinckrodt Chemical Company, a government contractor that processed uranium for the world’s first nuclear reactor and the Manhattan Project, buried tens of thousands of barrels of nuclear waste in two areas around St. Louis decades ago. Now, a lawsuit is alleging that the nuclear waste may have caused more than 2,700 cases of cancer in […]

12/07/2015 / By Greg White

Scientists detect highest levels of Fukushima radiation off the coast of California taken to date

Radiation from the 2011 Fukushima disaster is plaguing more and more identified sites on American shores, although research scientists continue to claim that these levels are still too low to harm marine life or the public, despite the ongoing epidemic of animal deaths in the Pacific Ocean. The highest recorded level of radiation taken to […]

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