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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: Radioactive Rabbit Droppings Help Spur Nuclear Cleanup


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In an undated photo, a nuclear reactor sites idle at Washington State's Hanford nuclear site, where plutonium was once processed for U.S. nuclear weapons.

Radioactive animal droppings helped spur a 2009 nuclear waste cleanup, funded by the federal economic stimulus program championed by President Barack Obama.

Photograph by Chris Hamilton/NGS