Widow says St. Louis nuclear victim compensation falls short; 300,000 eligible but few apply

It’s been 18 months since Willie Clarence Griffin lost his battle with cancer. His wife of 26 years, Kenyatta, now a widow, blames a silent killer.

“It’s like a ghost came and took him from us,” said Kenyatta Griffin.

For 15 years, Willie worked in the 63138 ZIP code, an area later identified by the federal government as one of more than a dozen St. Louis locations where nuclear chemicals were illegally dumped in the 1940s…

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