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The nuclear toll on Coldwater Creek residents is being recognised, but what about the cancer victims at Oakridge Tennessee?

Joanna M McDowell, 2 May 25

My husband and his family lived on the compound where the Manhattan Project was in Oak Ridge Tennessee, His mother and father worked there and were not aware that the ground that they grew there veggies and the water that they drank was contaminated with uranium and other nuclear materials for the first atomic bombs. There was other facility’s on the compound, The Y-12 Complex, K-25 Plant, The X-10 Graphite Reactor which was used for the production of plutonium which also got into the grounds of the facility.

My husband and his brother has been suffering for just about all their adult life of skin cancer and other serious ailments because this was not told to their parents that all this stuff they were using on the bombs could leak in the ground where they lived. I am sure other people that lived there are going through similar health problems.

You had a news cast about the people in Coldwater Creek in St. Louis Missouri on April 22, 2025 about all that they are going through because of the contanimation in their community and two US Senators from New Mexico (Ben Ray Lujan) and Idaho(Mike Crapo) are making another push to exspand Federal Government compensation program for people exsposed to radiation following uranium mining and nuclear testing carried out during the cold war in these two states. They have already got some compensation and these two Senators are pushing for more.

Nobody has done a write up about the people that lived in OakRidge Tennessee in the compound that is suffering all these years like my husband and his brother and many others.. They have not been contacted about any kind of compensation but others has gotten just that and probably will be after your news cast and if the two Senators get their bill passed..

The people that lived in Oakridge Tennessee on the compound did their duty for their Country and they are now the forgotten ones, they deserve better than this!!!! This is a disgrace to the people that deserve better from the Government.

I hope that someone will pick up this story so the people that worked at the Manhattan Project can be heard.

May 3, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized