In 2012 the Chicago Park District received funding form the EPA for remediation of the site, bagging the radioactive soil and shipping it to a Superfund site.
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People in Montclair, N . J ., have radioactive soil in their yards, while residents at a California site have huge balls of DDT surfacing on their property.
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Allard said Kaufman's investigation and criticism helped persuade EPA to change its plans and decide last year to remove radioactive soil from a toxic waste site in a Denver neighborhood.
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He said the mice, which are themselves highly radioactive, appear to be thriving, despite the radioactive soil and plants and the major, disease-causing mutations in their genes.
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Researchers at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, a division of the Department of Energy, have experimented with a way to clean up radioactive soils using basically the same extraction process.
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Among the nine current field tests, Ensley said, are ones in Bayonne, at the Picatinny Arsenal and at Chernobyl in the Ukraine, where radioactive soil and water are being treated.
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This option was selected in order to minimize the cost of the foundation, the number of cuts into radioactive soil layers, dose uptake of workers, and risk to the environment from further contamination.
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The waste included radioactive soil and debris from Santa Susana in the hills west of Chatsworth at levels estimated by the U . S . Department of Energy to be the radioactive equivalent of two chest X-rays.
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Mustard plants and sunflowers could be the key to cheaper, less disruptive cleanups of polluted and radioactive soil and water, according to researchers at Rutgers University and a company testing the plants at sites from New Jersey to Chernobyl.
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Nuclear testing by the US totaling more than 30 megaton TNT took place during the cold war; in 1977 1980, a concrete dome ( the Runit Dome ) was built on Runit Island to deposit radioactive soil and debris.
