Radioactive waste from former Ohio military supplier headed to Michigan

[The Patriot]

Radioactive waste from former Ohio military supplier headed to Michigan

04-01-2017 05:34 AM

U.S. Ecology's Wayne Disposal hazardous waste landfill in Van Buren Township is proposed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to take low-level radioactive waste as part of a major cleanup of what's known as the Luckey site, a long-shuttered beryllium plant in Luckey, Ohio. The plant supplied the strong, light but highly toxic metal to the U.S. military and Atomic Energy Commission in the 1940s and 1950s.


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