Safe? Nuclear Waste Site in St. Louis Sits Above Underground Fire
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is ordering an isolation barrier to be built at the West Lake Landfill in St. Louis, Missouri where nuclear waste dating back to the 1973 Manhattan Project was illegally dumped 4 years ago.
An underground fire has been burning beneath the landfill some 1,200 feet away from the adjoining Bridgeton Landfill. [1]
EPA spokeswoman Angela Breese said the barrier “will essentially be an underground wall.”
