A chilling new study has confirmed the fears of generations – that children who grew up near a Missouri creek polluted by nuclear waste from the first atomic bomb project are suffering from elevated rates of cancer rates. The findings have been published this week in JAMA Network Open by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health …
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Nuclear waste left over from US efforts to develop an atomic bomb from the 1940s and onwards put children living near St Louis, Missouri at a significantly elevated risk of cancer throughout the rest of their lives, a new study suggests. As part of the top-secret scheme known as the Manhattan Project, radioactive waste from uranium refinement in St Louis …
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Scientists analyzing sediment scraped from a rugged ridge nearly three miles under the Central Pacific Ocean expected calm, predictable chemistry. Instead they found a dense band of the radioactive isotope beryllium‑10 (10Be) packed into the layer that formed about 10 million years ago. This enough extra atoms to raise the normal background by roughly seventy‑three percent. Dr. Dominik …
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