[HoE] Re: [DEADLANDS] Just wondering where you all are from?

[CSASgt@aol.com]

Hey, here's an article I found, might give some ideas to people...

Brian Ward
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Radioactive Tumbleweeds on Rise

.c The Associated Press

RICHLAND, Wash. - First, radioactive ants, flies and gnats were found at the
Hanford nuclear complex, which for years churned out plutonium for nuclear
weapons.

Now a government report says there has been a dramatic increase in the number
of radioactive tumbleweeds found blowing around the place.

The Department of Energy found 20 contaminated tumbleweeds in the first six
months of 1998, compared with 11 during all of 1995, an increase likely due to
stepped-up efforts to search the area.

With roots that can stretch 15 feet into the soil looking for water, the weeds
suck up contaminated groundwater and spread radioactivity when the top of the
plant is blown away by the wind.

The plants sprout across the 560-square-mile government reservation, which is
one of the nation's most heavily contaminated nuclear sites. When they tumble,
so does radioactivity.
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