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Manhattan Project Sites: Draft Special Resource Study /
Environmental Assessment.
- Washington, DC : Nationa Park Service, U.S. Department of the
Enterior, 2009. - 216 s.
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http://parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm?parkID=482&projectId=14946&documentID=30977
Third Five-Year Review Report for Formerly Utilized Sites
Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) St. Louis Sites. / :
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District Office, 2015.
Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program.
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http://www.mvs.usace.army.mil/Portals/54/docs/fusrap/Reports/ThirdFiveYearReviewReport_Rev0_07-
31-2015.pdf
The long-term problems of radioactive contamination discussed in
the FUSRAP Report are examples of the more general long-term
radioactive contamination effects of nuclear power generation and
nuclear weapons. The Chernobyl disaster and the Fukushima disaster
have both left large areas of land which will be dangerously
contaminated for many thousands of years. Nuclear power generation
in general produces very long-lived radioactive waste products, and
the problem of safe storage or disposal of these products has not
been solved. The problem of radioactive contamination associated
with nuclear weapons is greater still. A nuclear war would leave
very large areas of the globe permanently uninhabitable, and would
affect both belligerent and neutral countries.