{"id":1702611,"date":"2022-10-19T15:32:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T19:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1702611"},"modified":"2022-10-19T15:32:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T19:32:52","slug":"missouri-school-to-close-after-radioactive-waste-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missouri-school-to-close-after-radioactive-waste-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri School To Close After Radioactive Waste Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmissouri-school-to-close-after-radioactive-waste-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1702611&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Missouri school will be shut down indefinitely after high levels of radioactive waste were reported, school officials announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Jana Elementary School, located in Florissant near St. Louis, made the decision following a report last week by Boston Chemical Data Corp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHazelwood School District\u2019s top priority is providing a safe environment, free from distractions and disruptions, in which we can educate our children and in which our staff can work,\u201d the district said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hazelwoodschools.org\/site\/default.aspx?PageType=3&#038;DomainID=4&#038;ModuleInstanceID=43&#038;ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&#038;RenderLoc=0&#038;FlexDataID=34296&#038;PageID=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The school district revealed that Jana Elementary will switch to virtual instruction for the remainder of the semester and \u201cwill review redistricting options to be put in place prior to the second semester of the 2022\/2023 school year, with a target of November 28 for students and staff to report to redistricted schools, if feasible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In mid-November, parents and staff will receive notifications regarding new school assignments, according to the statement. Students and staff are expected to start in their new locations on November 28.<\/p>\n<p>The school district apologized to those impacted by the changes, noting that it plans to provide support during the transition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the students, staff and parents of the Jana School Community\u2014We recognize that you are being faced with a situation not created by anyone in this District, over which you have no control, and that this is causing a disruption to our students\u2019 education and school climate. For that we sincerely apologize,\u201d the district\u2019s statement read. \u201cPlease know that Hazelwood School District will work hand-in-hand with you to provide the support that is needed as we transition through these very difficult times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Radioactive waste from World War II production as part of the Manhattan Project contaminated Coldwater Creek, according to the study. Mallinckrodt Chemical Co. processed uranium ore in St. Louis from 1942 to 1957 and shipped waste to a site that flowed along the 19-mile creek near the Missouri River.<\/p>\n<p>The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designated the creek as a Superfund site in 1989, though contamination removal is not scheduled for completion until 2038.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/wwii-era-radioactive-waste-found-at-missouri-elementary-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that\u00a0Boston Chemical Data Corp. had published a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/124fnZz3VJ2KozmhmbYiiedqaPKetRST9\/view?fbclid=IwAR27xGmY9pOC8ibjyIKe9eqg8gSrmQipfphY90rsxXngmRsv_Iucm1MJmns\">report<\/a> that found samples taken in August of \u201cdangerous\u201d alpha-radiation levels emitting co-mingled amounts of radium and thorium on the elementary school site.\u00a0Samples included classrooms, the kitchen, and the library, in addition to outside fields and playgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRadiological contamination in and around Coldwater Creek, prior to remediation activities, could have increased the risk of some types of cancer in people who played or lived there,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The school, with an enrollment of approximately 400 students, has been open since the 1970s, with thousands of young children and staff potentially exposed to radioactive waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Missouri school will be shut down indefinitely after high levels of radioactive waste were reported, school officials announced on Tuesday. Jana Elementary School, located in Florissant near St. Louis, made the decision following a report last week by Boston Chemical Data Corp. \u201cHazelwood School District\u2019s top priority is providing a safe environment, free from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}