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3. Leaking for years. Radioactive jam sent to governor, Energy secretary

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https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/08/08/Radioactive-jam-sent-to-governor-Energy-secretary/9153650088000/

Radioactive jam sent to governor, Energy secretary
AUG. 8, 1990

RICHLAND, Wash. -- A scientist activist sent jam made from radioactive mulberries to Gov. Booth Gardner and Energy Secretary James Watkins as an object lesson on mismanagement of nuclear waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

Norm Buske, owner of a private research company that for years has studied ground-water contamination at Hanford, said Tuesday he made the jam from berries he picked at N-Springs along the Hanford shoreline of the Columbia River.

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