Radioactive spoils of nuclear power plants from 36 states have been dumped in a designated hole in Texas on a regular basis. Are we currently living through a radioactive version of the gold rush, funded by taxpayers?

In a remote place in the desert of West Texas, outside the small town of Andrews, something dirty has been going on which threatens the water supply of nearly a third of America’s farmland (and perhaps the millions of people who eat the food grown using that water).

The highly radioactive spoils of nuclear power plants from 36 states — as well as other seriously toxic or carcinogenic substances, such as PCBs dredged from the Hudson River — are being dumped there on a regular basis, and this will continue until the designated hole in the ground is filled.  

That designated […]