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Uranium Waste From This Aussie Mine Was Safely Locked Away, But Microbes Had Other Plans
Its radioactive legacy is clearly not over yet. ScienceAlert .
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In 1944, rock samples from Australia’s Mount Painter mine were shipped to the United States for Manhattan Project experiments. Researchers at the mine had assumed that the uranium and rare‑earth elements remained safely contained within the dry waste piles, or tailings.
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