Mantenimiento industrial en Estados Unidos

1994/06/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Ingurumena

In the United States, the Government's Department of Energy gives radioactive fuel waste headaches. Formerly they were used to produce the plutonium and tritium necessary for the manufacture of atomic bombs, and now there are tons of radioactive waste, mainly stored in three places.

These three locations are far from the villages in the National Laboratory for Engineering of Savannah River (South Carolina), Hanford (Washington) and Idaho. Dozens of workers working in these three places to store nuclear waste have been contaminated.