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radioactive contamination
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presence of radioactive substances where they are undesirable
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- contamination
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- Category:Radioactive contamination
- has effect
- radiation syndrome
- has cause
- nuclear accident
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The Hanford site represents two-thirds of the United States' high-level radioactive waste by volume. Nuclear reactors line the riverbank at the Hanford Site along the Columbia River in January 1960. As of 2013, the Fukushima nuclear disaster site remains highly radioactive, with some 160,000 evacuees still living in temporary housing, and some land will be unfarmable for centuries. The difficult cleanup job will take 40 or more years, and cost tens of billions of dollars.
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