Director Rebecca Cammisa tracks the journeys of several residents of Bridgeton, Mo., and adjacent communities along Coldwater Creek (a floodplain that runs downstream from the nuclear dumping ground-floodplain as in the creek floods, and water spreads past its banks and into, for example, nearby homes, carrying with it soil and whatever might be in that soil, for example radioactive isotopes). Although “science” cannot corroborate any cause and effect here, the area is afflicted by astronomically high rates of cancer, pulmonary disease and multiple sclerosis, and if you map the reported cases they have an uncanny if unscientific concentration around the areas where nuclear waste would spread, if it were not being successfully contained, which officially it is, even though residents have had their homes tested and found radioactivity levels 1000 times the “acceptable” level suggested by the EPA.
