nuclear waste

  • The Most Radioactive Place In New York City Is This Garage

    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.


  • 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.