Word: krypton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even worse, though, the plant is not equipped to trap any gas released during reprocessing and over 30,000 curies of gaseous radioactive krypton (K85) are released every month. One curie, fully absorbed, is fatal. With prevailing winds from the west a serious hazard is posed for Buffalo 30 miles to the northeast and for Vermont, which thought its problems had ended when the wastes first left the state...