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julieannie t1_isysuii wrote

Reply to comment by Fluffybunnykitten in Missouri school to close after radioactive waste report by KCPanther

My parents lived there, went to school there, played in the creek and I ended up with cancer. Could easily just be shit luck but without studies we’ll never know.

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miserystate t1_isz4igk wrote

I just realized this as well, my mom and dad were both raised here and both got cancer (mom died) and I had cancer when I was 17. Shiiiiitttt. Why didn’t I think of this before??

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Ditovontease t1_isz9p38 wrote

https://www.atomichomefront.film/

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dak4f2 t1_it15iya wrote

Jesus Christ.

>Another tragic and bizarre occurrence has been unfolding in Bridgeton, Missouri. In 1973, approximately 47,000 tons of the same legacy radioactive waste was moved from Latty Avenue and was illegally dumped into a neighborhood landfill named West Lake. This landfill became an EPA Superfund site in 1990. For the last seven years, an uncontrolled, subsurface fire has been moving towards an area where the radioactive waste was buried. The community’s fear is that fire will meet the radioactive particles. These particles will then attach to smoldering vapor and become airborne, migrating off-site and contaminating communities miles away.

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Im_ready_hbu t1_it1d25b wrote

Bro I'm just trying to go to bed why you gotta terrify me like this

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Ditovontease t1_isz9gj9 wrote

Have you seen Atomic Homeland? Its a documentary about St Louis and all the people that have gotten cancer there.

Be ready to get fucking angry.

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