- OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Federal
and state health officials say they may have to tear up about a third of
a mile of road on the Oak Ridge nuclear reservation and repave it after
radioactive strontium 90 leaked out of a truck onto the road surface.
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- The road - Highway 95 - was closed Friday night.
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- Authorities from the U.S. Department of Energy said a
truck carrying waste byproducts leaked several drops of strontium 90 over
a 25-foot area of the highway. Strontium 90 is a byproduct of the fission
of uranium or plutonium, the materials that fuel atomic bombs.
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- Officials said there was a possibility some vehicles
may have driven over the contamination, and they encouraged anyone who
may have done so to contact their local health department.
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