Cancer-causing radium detected in US city’s groundwater due to landfill teeming with nuclear waste from WWII-era atomic bomb efforts
A county in Missouri has been deemed a ‘cancer cluster’ due to World War II-era radium used in America’s atomic bomb efforts littering the region. For decades, residents of St Louis County have raised concerns about a spike in cancer diagnosis – and specifically those living just outside the West Lake Landfill. The landfill has … Read more