Offbeat Plans to Protect Nuclear Waste (With Cats)
by Rachel Kaufman Radioactive junkyards remain grave for millennium . So how do you keep succeeding generations of urban explorers and dumpster loon away from all that toxic trash ? With a signal , of course ! New Mexico ’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant ( WIPP ) may be the cheap place on Earth . forget deep in the Chihuahuan Desert , the plant contains nearly 2 million cubic feet of radioactive slime and debris leftover from various nuclear weapon and defense projects ....