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Feds to pay South Carolina $600M in plutonium removal deal

by Associated Press
| September 1, 2020 1:03 AM

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After years of legal disputes, officials with the U.S. Department of Energy and South Carolina have inked a $600 million settlement over the storage of plutonium at a former nuclear weapons plant in the state, the largest legal settlement in South Carolina history.

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