ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) -Over 300 people attended a town hall meeting Tuesday night at the Spencer Road Library branch in St. Peters to discuss eligibility for compensation through the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA).

The RECA legislation, passed by Congress earlier this year, compensates people sickened by exposure to radioactive material from nuclear bomb tests, uranium mining or Manhattan Project waste improperly stored in the St. Louis region.

For years, uranium was processed for nuclear weapons at a site in Weldon Spring. That location is now an EPA Superfund site.

Kristin Tenbow graduated from Francis Howell High School, which sits on property adjacent to the Weldon Spring site. Eight years ago, she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma.

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