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Only US Nuclear Weapons Waste Storage Site Still Closed and Hot via Reader Supported News

Posted on 2014/04/23 by norma field

By William Boardman Nobody’s ever tried to fix an underground radiation accident before More than two months after plutonium and americium leaked from the supposedly leak-proof underground nuclear weapons waste storage facility in Carlsbad, New Mexico, the U.S. Department of … Continue reading →

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TESTS SHOW RADIATION CONTAMINATION ON FOUR MORE WORKERS AT NEW MEXICO SITEvia Nextgov

Posted on 2014/04/02 by norma field

The U.S. Energy Department on Monday said testing had revealed trace levels of contamination in four additional workers at a nuclear waste site in New Mexico. The announcement brings to 21 the total number of Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or … Continue reading →

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