Up in radioactive smoke
In the second Hill AFB-related nuclear oopsie uncovered in a month, a Layton garbage burning plant incinerated military hardware that contained radioactive materials. Earlier it was discovered that a warehouse at the base somehow shipped nuke warhead fuses to Taiwan, instead of batteries.Hill Air Force Base officials say they would have "followed different procedures" if they had known the junk the had incinerated contained radioactive materials. Oh well. Workers at the Wasatch Integrated Waste Management District burned secret military components that contained depleted uranium before Hill realized the items were radioactive. (Slap forehead here.)
The military uses the dense depleted uranium alloy in armor-piercing weapons, armor and as ballast for things like cruise missiles. The stuff can only be safely disposed of deep underground.
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