Radioactive rabbit poop litters Washington state
Researchers are searching for and destroying radioactive rabbit poop sprinkled around a shuttered Washington state nuclear plant.
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This is one of many cleanup projects at the site (www.hanford.gov). We're demolishing hundreds of contaminated buildings, digging up millions of cubic yards of contaminated soil, and treating some 50 million gallons of contaminated groundwater each month.
That particular waste site is near the center of our 586-square-mile site, a series of large trenches where contaminated liquids were discharged from
The Hanford Site is perhaps the most underestimated Superfund Site in all of the USA. The amount of toxic radioactive waste stored on this site is simply staggering. Much of the waste products will remain radioactive for the next 50,000 Years. Nothing man made will be able to contain this stuff for that long and it is inevitable all these nuclides will contaminate the groundwater that will make Chernobyl pale.
There seems to be a bigger problem here than radioactive rabbit poo in that if the rabbits could get to those salts and lick on them, what's keeping the stuff from leaking into an aquifer or contaminating other groundwater sources? If a jackrabbit can get to it, what else can and where is it going?
