The U.S. Department of Energy announced today it will permanently close two massive tanks of radioactive waste at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
The tank closings are the first at the site in 15 years.
During the cold war, the Savannah River Site helped produce stockpiles of nuclear bombs. Dozens of radioactive storage tanks are leftover from that era.
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