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Possible radiation leak at New Mexico military nuclear waste site

2014-02-16 11:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Unusually high levels of radioactive particles were found at an underground nuclear waste site in New Mexico on Saturday in what a spokesman said looked like the first real alarm since the plant opened in 1999. U.S. officials were testing for radiation in air samples at the site where radioactive waste, such as plutonium used in defense research and nuclear weapon making, is dumped half a mile below ground in an ancient salt formation. "They (air monitors) have alarmed in the past as a false...

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