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The Army Built Richland, Washington From a Town of a Few Hundred People in 1943. It Made the Plutonium for Nagasaki. The Cleanup Bill Is Now $578 Billion.
The Army built Richland, Washington from a town of a few hundred people in 1943 to produce the plutonium that went into the Nagasaki bomb. The cleanup bill for that same site is now $578 billion and still rising.
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The Same Ohio Land That Enriched Uranium for the Cold War Is Becoming a 10-Gigawatt AI Data Center — While Cleanup From the Last Use Is Still Underway.
The Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant enriched uranium for the Cold War nuclear arsenal from 1954 until 2001. Cleanup is still underway ...
Nevada Built an Entire City to House Hoover Dam's Workers in 1931. In 2014, It Gave Tesla $1.3 Billion to Build a Different Kind of Power Plant.
Nevada built an entire city from scratch in 1931 just to house Hoover Dam's workforce. In 2014, the state gave Tesla $1.3 billion to buil...
Benjamin Franklin Started a Debate Club at 21. It Became America's First Lending Library, Then a Museum You're Still Allowed to Touch.
Benjamin Franklin started a weekly debate club at 21 because he and his friends couldn't individually afford the books to argue from real...
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