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Radioactive contamination in a Missouri grade school has prompted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conduct new testing, according to U.S. Rep. Cori Bush. Bush was among several local, state and federal lawmakers that pushed for private testing after high levels of contamination were found at Jana Elementary School.
Jana Elementary is located next to Coldwater Creek, a 19-mile-long waterway contaminated decades ago with Manhattan Project waste. A federal report released in 2019 determined those exposed to the creek from the 1960s to the 1900s may have an increased rise of bone cancer, lung cancer and leukemia.