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Maxey Flats, 1976
Posted on November 16, 2014 | in Uncategorized | by Lexington Herald-Leader
A worker operating a bulldozer filled one of the trenches at Maxey Flats, a nuclear burial site, on Feb. 4, 1976. The 235-acre site in Fleming County was operated by the Nuclear Engineering Co. of Louisville. Work is to begin next year on a final ‘cap’ of Maxey Flats nuclear-waste site. Photo by Ron Garrison | Staff
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