Drums of highly toxic radioactive transuranic wastes set inside a salt cavern at the Waste Isolatio

Drums of highly toxic radioactive transuranic wastes set inside a salt cavern at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad New Mexico March 20 2006. WIPP chief scientist Roger Nelson oversees the cavernous salt mine that is the first geological lockbox for the "fiendishly toxic" detritus of nuclear weapons production – chemical sludge, lab gear and filters laced with radioactive plutonium. (Photo by Brian Vander Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Drums of highly toxic radioactive transuranic wastes set inside a salt cavern at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad New Mexico March 20 2006. WIPP chief scientist Roger Nelson oversees the cavernous salt mine that is the first geological lockbox for the "fiendishly toxic" detritus of nuclear weapons production – chemical sludge, lab gear and filters laced with radioactive plutonium. (Photo by Brian Vander Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Drums of highly toxic radioactive transuranic wastes set inside a salt cavern at the Waste Isolatio
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