https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Flats_Plant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos_National_Laboratory...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_of_the_United_...
The "problems" kill people. From the governments perspective this soft, civilian side, collateral damage is a required cost of our military machine. Inside of the military you have no real chance unless it is egregious beyond comprehension to ever get any kind of remedy.
The government will poison you and your family and then look at you with dead eyes and pat your survivors on the head and tell you to move on. EVERY one of those sites have a history of medical issues in the nearby community. A little "light" water table poisoning is nothing to the government if people can't pursue the vast history and documented scope of nuclear weapons production poisoning people.