HISTORY 224 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Plowshares Movement, Nevada Test Site, Old Age
10 Dec 2016
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A primer: military nuclear wastes in the united states . Cleanup from nuke weapons is largest, longest, and most-expensive cleanup project in the. Us: total project will cost about 1 trillion dollars, has been going on for 5 decades, tons of waste was created, the nevada test site is the most radioactively polluted place in the us. Over 10 billion dollars has been given to over 100,000 us workers as compensation for illness related to nuclear weapons programs. Illegal disposal of radioactive waste is a problem: ex. 1973 dumping of nuclear waste in municipal landfill in st. louis near the. Epa record of decision in 2008 allowed for this kind of dumping to occur as long the amount that was dumped was below a certain limit. The nas warned that this policy ignores that engineered barriers and institutional controls are inherently prone to failure.
