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Radioactive Waste Exposed Children in Missouri to Cancer Risks, Study Finds


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.

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