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Podcast: QAA Podcast
Episode: Nuked in the Midwest feat. Devin O’Shea (Premium E280) Sample
Description: There are these two big landfills up in north St. Louis. One is called the West Lake Landfill, and it is packed full of radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project. There’s hosing and tarps covering these huge sections of fields. It looks like a weird golf course from overhead, or a kind of sore in the land. It deserves to look this way because this nuclear waste site is the end product of a dozen botched techniques for nuclear disposal.
How did this radioactive waste wind up in the landfill? Why does the answer involve “men of the Veiled Prop...