60,000 tons of dangerous radioactive waste sits on Great Lakes’ shores

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The spent nuclear fuel is partly from 15 current or former U.S. nuclear power plants, including four in Michigan, that have generated it over the past 50 years or more. But most of the volume stored along the Great Lakes, more than 50,000 tons, comes from Canadian nuclear facilities, where nuclear power is far more prevalent. Read the full story by The Detroit Free Press.

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