The Forgotten Children of Fernald: How MIT’s Science Club Hid a Radioactive Secret - Thar Tribune
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The Forgotten Children of Fernald: How MIT’s Science Club Hid a Radioactive Secret - Thar Tribune
In the winter of 1994, Fred Boyce was listening to his car radio when he heard something he could not believe. A government committee had revealed that children at a Massachusetts institution were once fed radioactive cereal. It had happened fifty years earlier. Boyce froze. The institution they mentioned was the Fernald State School. He had lived there as a child. “That’s me,” he said out loud, stunned by what he was hearing. Back in the 1940s,…
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