My good friend works in nuclear hygiene (ie disposal) and it seems that the vast majority of his work is cleaning up after Manhattan and early nuclear energy programs (which were essentially one and the same). He doesn’t say much because he can’t, but what he has told me and from what I’ve seen in various documentaries, the Manhattan project was filled with the laziest, most arrogant imbeciles the 20th Century could produce. All of them highly qualified and some of the smartest people in America, but dumb and egotistical as hell. This isn’t like other industries where there are lots of unknowns, these guys knew intimately what the risks were and they did this shit anyway and then buried it in the stupidest places.
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