26. MISSOURI: Nuclear Waste Adventure Trail and Museum
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Why would you go visit a pile of nuclear waste? It’s a huge mound of rocks covering up TNT, asbestos, mercury, radium, and radioactive uranium.
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The spot used to be where the countries largest explosives factory used to stand, and it turned into a uranium-ore processing plant, operational until 1966. After being abandoned for two decades, The US Department of Energy covered it with rocks and added a museum. That’s all this is.
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