SAN CLEMENTE, CA - MARCH 10: A caution sign sits on one of the Holtec HI-STORM UMAX dry storage containers at the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station south of San Clemente, CA on Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (Photo by Paul Bersebach/MediaNews FLORISSANT, Mo. (AP) - There is significant radioactive contamination at an elementary school in suburban St.
Louis where nuclear weapons were produced during World War II, according to a new report by environmental investigation consultants.The report by Boston Chemical Data Corp.
confirmed fears about contamination at Jana Elementary School in the Hazelwood School District in Florissant raised by a previous Army Corps of Engineers study.The new report is based on samples taken in August from the school, according to the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch. Boston Chemical did not say who or what requested and funded the report.RELATED: New York City nuclear attack PSA: steps people should take"I was heartbroken," said Ashley Bernaugh, president of the Jana parent-teacher association who has a son at the school. "It sounds so cliché, but it takes your breath from you."The school sits in the flood plain of Coldwater Creek, which was contaminated by nuclear waste from weapons production during World War II.