While making nukes, Dow Chemical had two major plutonium fires (Pu is pyrophoric) because they didn't have suppression systems where they were milling it. Stored used cutting fluid outside in barrels that leaked thousands of gallons into the soil. And they only diverted water flows 30yr later...
All of this was kept as quiet as possible. The fires put out contamination for hundreds of miles. The soil contamination had been making it's way into the public water system for decades before anything serious was done. And they are trying to close some of these damn to reduce maintenance costs...
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