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Motorists across the South could soon be sharing the highway with nuclear waste generated decades ago in developing the first atomic bomb.
Tons of this so-called "transuranic waste" have been waiting for years to leave what is now the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for a final home in New Mexico, where the government has built a permanent vault in salt beds nearly a half-mile deep.
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