Oct 21, 2021 · Kay Drey is an activist, environmentalist, a whistleblower, an Earth Mother. Who could argue that there is anyone more passionate than Kay Drey about protecting humanity from the dangers of the atomic age? Humanity means mothers, fathers, children – it’s not just a word.

Mar 7, 2019 · Kay has served on the Board of Directors at Great Rivers Environmental Law Center since 2003. She is a passionate supporter of the environment as well as civil rights, and has been an important leader of Great Rivers from the very start.

Aug 3, 2018 · “‘We have the oldest radioactive waste of the atomic age,’ says Kay Drey, the grande dame of local environmentalism. ‘And there is no place on the planet to put this where it won’t impact our air, our water, and our lives. There is no solution.’”

Nov 14, 2024 · Kay’s claims to fame include decades on the board of Nuclear Information and Resource Service, followed by 17 years, and counting, on the board of Beyond Nuclear, where she is president emerita. Kay helped block new reactors in Missouri, as by helping lead the effort against Construction Work in Progress (CWIP).

Apr 1, 2025 · That includes the revered St. Louis environmental activist Kay Drey, whose staunch opposition to nuclear power over the past 50 years led The Gateway Journalism Review to dub her “The Paul Revere of the Nuclear Age.”

Jan 15, 2024 · A photo taken in 1960 of deteriorating steel drums containing radioactive residues near Coldwater Creek, by the Mallinckrodt-St. Louis Sites Task Force Working Group (State Historical Society of Missouri, Kay Drey Mallinckrodt Collection, 1943-2006).

The papers of Kay Drey contain correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings, and subject files documenting Drey's work to integrate University City Housing in the early 1960s and her anti-nuclear power activism from the 1970s to the 2010s.

May 27, 1998 · “It just makes me sick,” say Kay Drey. The 81-year-old dean of the St. Louis environmental movement is sitting at her dining room table, which is scattered with various paperwork, including two dogeared reports issued by the …

Jul 12, 2023 · One engineering consultant's report from the 1970s incorrectly claimed that human contact with the creek was "rare." State Historical Society of Missouri, Kay Drey Mallinckrodt Collection,...

Jul 12, 2023 · As the nation’s oldest radioactive waste of the atomic age, many details about Mallinckrodt and other private companies’ storage and maintenance of nuclear waste have been well documented, first as part of a grassroots civic effort in the 1970s by environmental activist Kay Drey and then as part of a seven-part series published by the St ...