A Nuclear Waste Dump You Can Walk On: Weldon Spring, Missouri

2017-09-04

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In Weldon Spring, Missouri, there is a strange, grey, windblasted seven-storey pile of rocks. It's the Weldon Spring Site: a nuclear and toxic waste dump on the site of an old uranium processing factory. And you can walk on it: it's technically a tourist attraction. That was going to be the whole of my video... and then I did some more research.

Filmed by Matt Gray - http://mattg.co.uk - @unnamedculprit

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