Bernie's Time Machine: Radioactive Waste

A look at the victims and potential victims.

“Five years went by before they were told their drinking water was contaminated.”

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In November of 1988, for CBS News’s 48 Hours, I covered a story about safety problems at nuclear processing plants in America… that local residents found out about the hard way. I talked to those affected, and also to the investigators looking into such cases.

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