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Radioactive Rabbits?

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Old A-bomb plant is home to contaminated wildlife.

| December 27, 2010

Radioactive rabbit “droppings” at a nuclear site in Washington that once produced plutonium for the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945 prompted U.S. Department of Energy contractors to track down the tainted animals.

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