Why Starmer’s nuclear power push raises cancer fears.

Why Starmer’s nuclear power push raises cancer fears.

The UK is investing £14.2bn in a new Sizewell plant and £2.5bn in small nuclear reactors. In 1942, the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works in Missouri, US, wasprocessing uranium for the first atomic bomb. It ran out of space for itsradioactive waste and moved it to an open air storage site near ColdwaterCreek, north of St Louis. More than 80 years later, Harvard University hasfound that communities living near the creek, a tributary of the MissouriRiver…