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I hope you aren’t making nuclear weapons in your garage. If you are, your bricks know what you’re doing.

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America has currently no plan for its nuclear waste. It did, however, at one point, have a supremely ambitious…

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Those Mexican thieves that stole a truckload of cobalt-60? They're virtually sure to die, according to experts.