Word: ariz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tucson, Ariz...
...months, radioactive tritium had been leaking from the American Atomics Corp. factory in central Tucson, Ariz. The plant, which used the substance for luminous signs and watch dials, had shut down in July after state investigators found a tritium-tainted chocolate cake in a nearby kitchen that supplied lunches to 40,000 city schoolchildren. Radiation levels higher than normal were also found in the urine of local residents and in the water of a parochial school swimming pool. Rather than fight to retain its license, American Atomics decided to leave the state. Said Company President Peter Biehl...
...week's end the plan was to cart off the tritium to the Navajo Army depot, a federal munitions dump near Flagstaff, Ariz. There it could be processed for sale, fed at a safe rate into the atmosphere or dumped at a nuclear waste site. But when a Flagstaff judge issued a restraining order against the transport, its destination became dubious...
...Tucson, Ariz...
Poor Califano: first the smoke, then the fire. Catherine Hitchcock Prescott, Ariz...