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(The Associated Press) This undated image provided by the Los Alamos National Laboratory shows lab contract worker, Kevin Miller examining a truck excavated from a location called Area B on lab property in Los Alamos, N.M. Over the past three years, lab workers laboring under highly specialized containment domes built literally just a mile or so from downtown Los Alamos -- have pulled up everything from a truck believed to have been used at the first nuclear test bomb explosion to whiskey bottles, calendars and about twice as much toxic waste and soil as had been thought to be buried at what is known as Area B.

Los Alamos under renewed environmental scrutiny

Last updated Saturday, October 1, 2011 - 4:55pm

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Pickup trucks believed present at the world’s first nuclear bomb test, coke and whiskey bottles, a calendar and a toothbrush are just a few of the items unearthed by a cleanup of one of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s original toxic dump sites, where the detritus of the 1940s Manhattan Project was strewn through some of northern New Mexico’s most scenic mesas and canyons.

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Nuke waste nears approval

Josh Loftin The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, August 2, 2011 - 8:30pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah regulators expect to have a decision within a month on whether to allow the storage of a mix of high- and low-level nuclear waste at a disposal site 30 miles west of Salt Lake City.

Although studies have not been completed, Division of Radiation Control director Rusty Lundberg said it appears likely the blended waste will not exceed permitted levels of radioactivity. But the waste would have higher levels than what is currently stored at the EnergySolutions facility in Clive, Utah.

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Military compass wasn't hazardous in West Haven

Jessica Miller Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 10:43pm

WEST HAVEN -- An old military compass possibly emitting radioactive material sparked a hazardous material response in Weber County earlier this week.

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Nevada lawmakers seeking federal amends for massive radioactive contamination

Los Angeles Times, Ralph Vartabedian

Last updated Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 11:33pm

The Nevada Legislature has taken the first step in demanding that the federal government make amends for massive radioactive contamination left from decades of nuclear weapons testing on a swath of desert the size of Rhode Island.

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EnergySolutions gets permission to incinerate German radioactive waste in Tennessee

Frank Munger, Knoxville News-Sentinel

Last updated Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 1:34pm

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. -- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved licenses that will allow up to 1,000 tons of Germany's low-level radioactive waste to be brought here for incineration.

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EnergySolutions fined for radioactive waste breach

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, February 25, 2011 - 5:12pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- State regulators slapped Utah nuclear waste processor EnergySolutions Inc. with a fine this week for handling waste that is more radioactive than its license allows.

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