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When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe β Practical Engineering
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Late in the night of Valentineβs Day 2014, air monitors at an underground nuclear waste repository outside Carlsbad, New Mexico, detected the release of radioactive elements, including americium and plutonium, into the environme