/tags/wwii WWII en-US Copyright © 2024 ÍâÍřĚěĚĂ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:12:46 GMT /health-science-environment/2024-03-21/radioactive-waste-compensation-not-included-in-latest-government-funding-bill U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley said the House needs to stop “screwing around” and pass his bill expanding the program to the St. Louis area. Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:12:46 GMT /health-science-environment/2024-03-21/radioactive-waste-compensation-not-included-in-latest-government-funding-bill Jason Rosenbaum /health-science-environment/2024-03-05/florissant-homes-built-on-coldwater-creek-may-sit-on-radioactive-contamination The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is drilling through basement floors in the Cades Cove subdivision of Florissant to determine whether there is radioactive contamination under residents’ homes. Tue, 05 Mar 2024 11:00:00 GMT /health-science-environment/2024-03-05/florissant-homes-built-on-coldwater-creek-may-sit-on-radioactive-contamination Allison Kite /health-science-environment/2024-01-16/epa-seeks-community-input-on-coldwater-creek-cleanup At a tense meeting Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency launched a new effort to get community input on the continuing cleanup of nuclear waste in St. Louis County. Tue, 16 Jan 2024 22:12:57 GMT /health-science-environment/2024-01-16/epa-seeks-community-input-on-coldwater-creek-cleanup Kate Grumke /health-science-environment/2024-01-16/coldwater-creek-to-finally-have-warning-signs-after-decades-of-nuclear-contamination Nuclear waste stored outside St. Louis was found to pose a risk to nearby Coldwater Creek as early as 1949. The contaminated creek will finally have warning signs almost 75 years later. Mon, 08 Jan 2024 21:25:48 GMT /health-science-environment/2024-01-16/coldwater-creek-to-finally-have-warning-signs-after-decades-of-nuclear-contamination Allison Kite /health-science-environment/2023-12-07/radiation-exposure-funding-isnt-in-the-final-defense-bill-whats-next-for-st-louisans An amendment that extended the funding and expanded it to include parts of St. Louis did not make it into the final defense funding bill. Now St. Louis-area advocates are figuring out their next steps. Thu, 07 Dec 2023 19:09:59 GMT /health-science-environment/2023-12-07/radiation-exposure-funding-isnt-in-the-final-defense-bill-whats-next-for-st-louisans Kate Grumke /health-science-environment/2023-10-29/weldon-spring-uranium-plant-contaminated-missouri-lakes-with-radioactive-waste Lakes and streams in August A. Busch Memorial Conservation Area were contaminated with uranium from refining efforts in Weldon Spring. Sun, 29 Oct 2023 11:00:00 GMT /health-science-environment/2023-10-29/weldon-spring-uranium-plant-contaminated-missouri-lakes-with-radioactive-waste Allison Kite, Derek Kravitz, and Kelly Kauffman /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2020-04-22/how-a-holocaust-survivors-difficult-birth-led-to-his-career-in-high-risk-pregnancies On April 22, 1943, Dr. Raul Artal-Mittelmark was born in a Nazi concentration camp in Transnistria, a region in Eastern Europe. “It was a very difficult… Wed, 22 Apr 2020 22:10:48 GMT /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2020-04-22/how-a-holocaust-survivors-difficult-birth-led-to-his-career-in-high-risk-pregnancies Emily Woodbury /arts/2019-11-26/how-one-small-kind-act-resulted-in-hundreds-of-thanksgiving-dinners-for-needy-st-louisans Congregation Temple Israel is hosting its annual Thanksgiving dinner on Wednesday. For more than three decades, the synagogue has served Thanksgiving… Tue, 26 Nov 2019 17:02:53 GMT /arts/2019-11-26/how-one-small-kind-act-resulted-in-hundreds-of-thanksgiving-dinners-for-needy-st-louisans Marissanne Lewis-Thompson /arts/2019-06-05/this-ship-of-jewish-refugees-asked-for-shelter-80-years-ago-and-the-us-said-no Updated at 5 p.m., June 5 with information about a new location for the event — The lecture and vigil will now be held at the Missouri History Museum to… Wed, 05 Jun 2019 15:31:12 GMT /arts/2019-06-05/this-ship-of-jewish-refugees-asked-for-shelter-80-years-ago-and-the-us-said-no Shahla Farzan /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2015-07-14/new-documentary-explores-st-louis-connection-to-nuclear-waste-contamination During World War II, a St. Louis-based company took on a project that turned out to be detrimental to the health of its employees.Mallinckrodt Chemical… Tue, 14 Jul 2015 21:17:30 GMT /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2015-07-14/new-documentary-explores-st-louis-connection-to-nuclear-waste-contamination