St. Louis Is Burning, 05/10/2013

Rolling Stone by Steven Hsieh An underground landfill fire near tons of nuclear waste raises serious health and safety concerns – so why isn’t the government doing more to help? There’s a fire burning in Bridgeton, Missouri. It’s invisible to area residents, buried deep beneath…

West Lake Landfill Superfund Site in Earth City Floodplain, Apr-May 2010

Sierra Club.org by Ginger Harris While we’re discussing what shouldn’t be in a floodplain, here’s something else that shouldn’t be there: illegally dumped radioactive waste from Mallinckrodt’s processing of extremely “hot” Belgian Congo uranium for the US’s first atomic bomb. This radioactive waste is sitting behind…

Mountain of Nuclear Waste Splits St. Louis and Suburbs, 03/24/1990

The New York Times by Keith Schneider ST. LOUIS— Nearly half a century after a company here began processing fuel for nuclear weapons, St. Louis and several western suburbs are battling over a new disposal plan for millions of cubic yards of dirt contaminated with uranium,…

Engineering Evaluation of Options for Disposition of Radioactively Contaminated Residues in West Lake Landfill

University of Missouri – Columbia College of Engineering by Shankha K. Banerji, William H. Miller, John T. O’Connor, Leslie S. Uhazy November 1984  Engineering Evaluation of Options for Disposition of Radioactively Contaminated Residues in West Lake Landfill