http://www.wtfnews.org/ Stories tagged Radioactive en-us Thu, 23 May 2013 16:21:22 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/world-news/libya-military-site-yields-possible-radioactive-material/ A military site containing what appears to be radioactive material has been uncovered by revolutionary forces near the southern Libyan city of Sabha. Military forces loyal to the country's National Transitional Council took a CNN crew Thursday to the site, not far from Sabha in the Sahara desert. The crew saw two large warehouses there, one containing thousands of blue barrels, some marked with tape saying "radioactive," and several plastic bags of yellow powder sealed w... ]]> Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:06:32 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/world-news/libya-military-site-yields-possible-radioactive-material/ http://www.wtfnews.org/world-news/in-soviet-russia-lake-contaminates-you/ In late 1945, along the banks of the Techa River in the Soviet Union, a dozen labor camps sent 70,000 inmates to begin construction of a secret city. Mere months earlier the United States’ Little Boy and Fat Man bombs had flattened Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leaving Soviet leaders salivating over the massive power of the atom. In a rush to close the gap in weapons technology, the USSR commissioned a sprawling plutonium-production complex in the southern Ural mountains. The clandes... ]]> Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:27:12 -0500 http://www.wtfnews.org/world-news/in-soviet-russia-lake-contaminates-you/