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Govt awards $45B to company treating 50M gallons of leaking radioactive waste
- HackerThemAll 3y agoI wonder when they will finally clean the mess they have done in Marshall Islands. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/25/endless-fallout-marshall-islands-pacific-idyll-still-facing-nuclear-blight-77-years-on https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/25/endless-...
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- whitepoplar 3y agoCan anyone explain the price? Seems high but I don't know anything about this sort of cleanup.
- bdcravens 3y ago$1000/gallon isn't cheap but with costs, labor, and profit margin it doesn't strike me as impossible (no more than design agencies charging $200+ an hour to write JS)
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- exabrial 3y ago> produced almost two-thirds of the plutonium for the country's nuclear weapons Nearly every nuclear waste problem is the ghost of a weapons program. It’s so unfortunate the media insists on lumping energy production and weapons program waste products together.
- adolph 3y ago237.75 Per liter, puts the value of treated waste between patchouli and human blood. Not having three eyed salmon in the Columbia is priceless though. https://gitnux.org/most-expensive-liquids-in-the-world/ https://gitnux.org/most-expensive-liquids-in-the-world/
- throw0101c 3y agoThis is for the Hanford weapons site: > The 580-square-mile site, located in the state of Washington, produced almost two-thirds of the plutonium for the country's nuclear weapons program from World War II through the Cold War. and not for a (civilian) nuclear power station. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site