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The administrators who run the nuclear
weapons plants have knowingly subjected the people who work in them and
the people who live near them to deadly radioactive contamination --
without telling them a word about it.
The government now estimates it will take 25,000 workers at least 30
years to clean up the mess at these plants -- at a cost of $300 billion
or more. [130]
And guess who's paying the bill!
What's more, nuclear weapons tests have spread deadly plutonium across
large tracts of the Southwest and the South Pacific. Many of the 458,000
U.S. soldiers who participated in the atomic testing program are now
dying of cancer. [131]
Don't worry, kid. It's perfectly safe. Just wear these goggles!
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But they're not the only ones. High cancer rates plague the general
population in the testing areas. One study estimated that previous
nuclear testing would eventually cause at least 430,000 people to die of
cancer worldwide. [132]
And plutonium remains highly radioactive for hundreds of thousands of
years.
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