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Most radioactive site in US is moving on from the Manhattan Project (newatlas.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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Vitrification is being used to move the radioactive material into a "safe" form. Then it is stored in trenches or deep underground.

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[–] 8 points 11 months ago

Wow, I had not realized there were millions of litres of radioactive sludge that needed to be dealt with... but on the other hand, it sounds like they didn't either due to all of the secrecy.

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