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Nuclear waste: What is it and how do we dispose of it?
Nuclear waste. We've all heard about it, but what is it? Is it a problem without a solution? How big is the problem? And what ...
Oak Ridge is home to many of the nation's most contaminated buildings. What’s being done?
Uranium weeps from the walls of one building in Oak Ridge. Here are other surprises of cleaning nuclear waste from America's ...
Does the Cold War bunker inside Colorado’s Cheyenne Mountain have a modern-day military use?
The not-so-secret command post is cocooned in 2,000 feet of granite and houses a power plant, water supply, food stores, a ...
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Much Of Wyoming May Be Safe If US Is Nuked, But Cheyenne Likely To Be Vaporized
A FEMA map showing the best places in the U.S. to survive a nuclear attack shows much of Wyoming clear. Cheyenne and surrounding areas, however, ...
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WIPP’s Cold War nuclear waste plan draws critics
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is about 30 miles east of Carlsbad. Provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Adrian Hedden Carlsbad Current-Argus [email protected] A federal plan to dispose ...
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The Hanford Site is America's most contaminated nuclear location. See photos of its long, toxic past.
But cleaning up nuclear waste is difficult ... This time it was to supply the US with a nuclear arsenal during the Cold War. Six more reactors were built by 1955. Production continued into ...
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Switzerland plans to update Cold War-era nuclear bunkers amid global tensions
Switzerland wants to update its network of aging nuclear shelters ... the 18th century and suffered some aerial bombing in World War Two. Delarageaz said his office had received a surge in ...
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Switzerland plans revamp of Cold War-era nuclear bunker network
1963 law ensures bunker spot for each Swiss resident Shelter requests increase since Ukraine war Some bunkers need ... to update its network of ageing nuclear shelters, which are increasingly ...
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New Mexico’s Nuclear-Weapons Boom
In New Mexico, such wealth is rare. Española, which sits on the Rio Grande and is a twenty-five-minute drive away, has a ...
Nuclear site workers in central Hanford ordered to take cover after leak alert
Workers in part of the center of the Hanford nuclear site were ordered to take cover indoors at 4:50 p.m. Friday. A large ...
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A Cold War-era bomb shelter in Florida has new owners. What's going on there?
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — An "iron curtain" has descended here. Residents near a Cold War-era nuclear bomb shelter are wondering what the property's new owners are doing on the other side of the chain ...