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UF0_T0FU t1_it54huk wrote

This is leftover from weapons testing, not nuclear power plants. And it was done by the government, not private actors. So you're wrong on both accounts.

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ThisistheInfiniteIs t1_it7ay1m wrote

Absolutely false, a significant portion of the fuel used in nuclear plants in the US was made from the nuclear weapons stockpile of uranium. Also, the mining and refining of nuclear material and fuel fabrication by private companies has contaminated many sites across the globe.

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