On This Day: May 17, 1983 - Oak Ridge Tennessee Identified as Having the World’s Largest Mercury Pollution

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Pete

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Pete has published a news story:

On This Day: May 17, 1983 - Oak Ridge Tennessee Identified as Having the World’s Largest Mercury Pollution.

On this day May 17, 1983, the United States Department of Energy confirmed that Oak Ridge, Tennessee had the highest levels of mercury pollution ever recorded in water anywhere in the world. The contamination was traced back to operations at the Y-12 National Security Complex, which began during World War II as part of the top secret Manhattan Project.

The Y-12 facility was used to enrich uranium for the development of nuclear weapons, and large amounts of mercury were used in the process...
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