Former Festus Mayor Jack King now leads a church

Yes probably a Good Thing God Called him away as a little time after 911 a shipment of Nuclear materials from Westinghouse down your way ended up here in the GTA Greater Toronto area of Ontario & sat Unguarded for a Summer until a worker in the Nuclear Waste Incinerator plant noticed the tubes contained some radioactive pellets that maybe considered Weapons Grade Plutonium unless someone from Canada can prove otherwise, of which Nobody has any Comment up here & the White House NRC people levied a fine for the Screw up www.nukefreepeel.org

...Some residents are losing patience with the delays.

"Nothing has been resolved," said Clarissa Eaton, 38, who argued and won a decision for her family in front of the Missouri Supreme Court this year in a related case.

In 1998, Eaton and her husband, Jerry, bought a ranch-style home with a two-car garage on three acres in Hematite.

They did not know they were moving into a house within 3,000 feet of a nuclear fuel plant.

Mallinckrodt Chemical Co. opened the plant in 1956 in an undeveloped area of Jefferson County south of St. Louis. For decades the plant churned out nuclear fuel rods, primarily for the Navy. The plant was also used for research projects such as atomic-powered aircraft and spacecraft...

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