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Avril 2018 / Reuters

America’s nuclear headache : old plutonium with nowhere to go



Scot J. Paltrow

AMARILLO, Texas (Reuters) - In a sprawling plant near Amarillo, Texas, rows of workers perform by hand one of the most dangerous jobs in American industry. Contract workers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pantex facility gingerly remove the plutonium cores from retired nuclear warheads.

Although many safety rules are in place, a slip of the hand could mean disaster.

In Energy Department facilities around the country, there are 54 metric tons of surplus (...)

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Thèmes
 Déchets radioactifs  Travailleurs du nucléaire