Monday, November 24, 2014

How a Typo May Have Turned a Drum of Radioactive Waste Into a Bomb

Source: http://gizmodo.com/how-a-simple-typo-may-have-turned-a-drum-of-radioactive-1662683094

How a Typo May Have Turned a Drum of Radioactive Waste Into a Bomb

In February, a drum of radioactive waste exploded at U.S.'s only underground nuclear waste repository. The Santa Fe New Mexican has released a bombshell report on the comedy of errors, which seems to have all started with a typo specifying the wrong type of kitty litter. Yup.

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