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| | BW Online | May 6, 2002 | A Thousand-Year Plan for Nuclear Waste |
 | | The 560-square-mile site in eastern Washington, which produced plutonium for nuclear warheads from 1943 to 1989, houses 53 million gallons of plutonium, uranium, iodine, mercury, and countless other contaminants known to cause cancer, thyroid disease, and other illnesses. |
 | | Archimedes Technology Group Inc. has invented a machine to filter out the most toxic radioactive elements--the ones that must be enveloped in glass. |
 | | Archimedes has raised $42 million in personal investments from the likes of George R. Roberts, partner in New York leveraged-buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Tully M. Friedman, CEO of Friedman Fleischer & Lowe and an investor in such companies as Levi Strauss & Co. is also on board. |
| www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/02_18/b3781088.htm (1112 words) |
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