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Nuclear security: Diaster waiting to happen

The world's oldest storage center for weapons-grade uranium in Oak Ridge, Tenn., has decaying storage facilities and doubtful security. The dangers are revealed in a detailed study of safety at the complex where there have been 22 fires and explosions recorded since 1997. During these incidences workers have been injured and contaminated, but a major fire would have catastrophic consequences to the thousands of people living nearby.

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