nuclear waste
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The Most Radioactive Place In New York City Is This Garage
Like so many NYC businesses, Primo Flat Fix occupies a nearly 100-year-old building. But this Queens, garage sits on a very peculiar piece of dirt: The former site of Wolff-Alport Chemical Company, a rare-earth supplier that furnished the Atomic Energy Commission with radioactive thorium — when it wasn’t dumping the toxic material in the sewer.
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Radioactive Gold Rush: Nuclear Waste Storage Is A Booming Business
First, dig a hole. Then, reinforce it with clay, concrete, steel, and plastic. Fill it with nuclear waste and cover it in 12 more metres of concrete. Then profit. That’s how one company in Texas has struck radioactive gold, charging companies $US10,000 per cubic foot to store nuclear refuse.
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Tennessee To Be Proud Owner Of 1000 Tons Of Radioactive Waste
As a flooded Nebraska contends with a potential nuclear incident, the tornado-ravaged state of Tennessee will soon have their own radioactive material to contend with – freshly imported from Germany!
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The Hanford Legacy
There is a right way and a wrong way to dispose of our nuclear effluence and I’m pretty sure just dumping it into the Columbia River isn’t the right way. Plutonium takes a closer look at the economic and environmental costs of our Cold War arms race.