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Ziegler: The Oil Spill is Bad. So is Deadly Contamination You Can’t See or Smell

by Bart Ziegler, PhD  Oct 20, 2021Oct 20, 2021 Why you can trust Voice of OC

On the topic of environmental disasters, could you imagine trying to deal with contamination from a far deadlier kind of waste that you can’t see or smell and that remains toxic for hundreds of thousands of years? The oil spill has us thinking about the state of nuclear waste safety.

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