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Default Same old, same old: Taxpayer will pick up cost of Hinkley C waste storage

En el artículo , Mike Tomlinson
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Americans are famously literal, so when the contractors ran short,
someone probably nipped down to Wal-Mart and picked up a few bags of the
stuff. And the rest is history


I wrote the above with tongue firmly in cheek, but it looks like it
wasn't so far off the mark.

http://www.chron.com/technology/busi.../A-typo-and-a-
bag-of-kitty-litter-might-cost-US-9186568.php

"Investigators also discovered the trigger of the "thermal runaway
event," also known as an "explosion": a dangerous combination of nitric
acid and salts, triethanolamine, and "sWheat Scoop" organic kitty
litter"

"The "organic" part of the kitty litter in question is crucial.

"That's because wheat, which makes up the pee-absorbing bulk of organic
kitty litter, contains plant cellulose that can burn. Standard kitty
litter, meanwhile, is inorganic, since it's primarily made of clay"

"So when drum-packing workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
followed instructions to add an organic variety to soak up radioactive
fluids, they were unknowingly packing up what Sarah Zhang at Gizmodo
called "the ingredients of a bomb""

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