Government Contractor Buried Nuclear Waste Near St. Louis PlaygroundBy Joshua Krause CBS News has interviewed many of the residents that lived and played in the area as kids, and found that a shocking number of them have all come down with cancer. These older residents discovered the pattern after they tried to reconnect with each other on social media, and noticed that many of their peers had cancer, or had been sick in the past. However, it seems that the area is still quite dangerous. One resident told CBS that Within a six-house radius, I knew four people with brain cancer, one a child, one a young professor, and I just thought, This is really odd. She later compiled a list of 2,700 cases of cancer, tumors, and autoimmune diseases in the area. The park where these adults used to play in as kids has since been gated off, as the Army Corps of Engineers tries to clean up the radioactive waste. The company that dumped the waste is known has Mallinckrodt, who helped the US government process uranium in St. Louis during World War Two. Theyve since issued a statement that places the blame for this disaster on the shoulders of the US government. The company worked under the direction of the US governmentand at no time did Mallinckrodt own any uranium or its byproducts. Joshua Krause is a reporter, writer and researcher at The Daily Sheeple. He was born and raised in the Bay Area and is a freelance writer and author. You can follow Joshuas reports at Facebook or on his personal Twitter. Joshuas website is Strange Danger. 