NASDAQ.comDow Jones Business Newsby John R. Emshwiller and Gary Fields Radioactive contamination from a St. Louis-area landfill containing nuclear-weapons-related waste likely has migrated off-site, according to a study published this week in a scientific journal. One of the authors of the private, peer-reviewed study, which appeared Tuesday in the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, said he doesn’t see…
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Aljazeera America.comby Ryan Schuessler Statement on barrier between underground fire and radioactive waste comes after study shows contamination is spreading Those living near a landfill complex in suburban St. Louis where an underground fire is burning near Cold War-era nuclear weapons waste say they remain afraid and frustrated despite a government pledge to build a…
Read MoreUPDATE: Residents frustrated by EPA’s isolation barrier plan for West Lake Landfill, 01/11/2016
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Read MoreEngineering Evaluation of Options for Disposition of Radioactively Contaminated Residues in West Lake Landfill
University of Missouri – ColumbiaCollege of Engineeringby Shankha K. Banerji, William H. Miller, John T. O’Connor, Leslie S. UhazyNovember 1984 Engineering Evaluation of Options for Disposition of Radioactively Contaminated Residues in West Lake Landfill
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Read MoreRadioactive Material in the West Lake Landfill, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Read MorePreliminary Health Assessment, West Lake Landfill
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Read MorePhase III Radiological Site Assessment, Earth City Industrial Park
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Read More2005 DNR Off-Site Soil Samples Report
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Read MoreFeasibility Study Report for Allied Waste Industries by Herst & Associates, JUNE 2006
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Read MoreComments RE the Proposed Plan for the West Lake Landfill Radioactive Wastes, 12/19/2006
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