Missouri Being Warned about the Dangers of Radioactive Waste

One of the few things I've retained from my time in school is the reality that once land becomes radioactive, it stays that way for a long long time. The state of Missouri is being warned by one of its top officials that there is still an ongoing danger with radioactive waste and something needs to be done about it.

I saw Raw Story share the words of Missouri's chief medical officer Dr. Heidi Miller who was addressing an interim committee of Missouri House members. She said that as a doctor she saw types of cancer in Missouri that she had never seen before and the cause dates back 80 years.

If you saw the movie "Oppenheimer", you know it touched on research for what became the atomic bomb and how St. Louis played a tragic role in that process.

All of those years of atomic development left many places in St. Louis with radioactive waste and the comments of Missouri's chief medical officer marks a renewed commitment to finding a solution for those who's lives were tragically affected by it and still are today.

This hunt for the remnants of radioactive waste in Missouri has been going on for years with little satisfying resolution.

To make it worse, there is evidence that the government downplayed the radioactive waste that remained in Missouri for years. Hopefully this new effort to confront what happened 80 years ago will finally bring a successful conclusion.