'If there's a spill, it's a disaster': living next to a giant lake of radioactive waste

Louisiana activists are fighting to stop industrial development in a polluted, economically struggling area, and a major concern is a fertilizer plant

The rose bush in Shirley Melancon's front yard used to bloom full and pink, but recently she noticed the flowers from the 100-year old plant are coming in white and shriveled.

She doesn't know why this is, but it's difficult not to wonder if there's a link to the sprawling radioactive waste storage structure that sits less than a mile from her tidy cottage in the fourth district of St James Parish, Louisiana.