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When Jane Thompson moved away from Uravan in western Colorado decades ago, it was still a quiet company town of about 1,000 residents, all of whom had some connection to

This story is part of a national series looking at the legacy of nuclear weapons development and testing in the United States.

Cleaning up Coldwater Creek and other radioactive waste sites in St. Louis County will cost more than twice what federal officials thought six years ago, a new federal report finds.

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush requested the Government Accountability Office evaluate the cleanup of the St. Louis County site contaminated by radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project.

The Latty Avenue property is an example of one of many unresolved environmental issues from the historic arms race.

In February, Colorado Legacy Land announced that as a company it was insolvent and would no longer be able to maintain, monitor or guard the former Cotter uranium mill and Superfund site.  Working together, the Colorado Department of Health and Environment and Environmental Protection Agency took two actions: 1) EPA went into an “interim work […]

WASHINGTON  -- Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), urging him to conven

Mallinckrodt began processing uranium ore in St. Louis in 1942. Parts of St. Louis remain contaminated more than 80 years later.

ST. LOUIS (AP)—The federal government and companies responsible for nuclear bomb production and atomic waste storage sites in the St. Louis area in the mid-20th century were aware of health risks, spills, improperly stored contaminants, and other problems but often ignored them, according to docum...

The federal government and companies responsible for nuclear bomb production and atomic waste storage […]