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Its services include engineering, decontamination, radioactive waste processing, and removal, transportation, and disposal of waste for closed nuclear power plants and former weapons sites.
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Rare earth minerals are often mixed with radioactive elements, and processing creates low-level radioactive waste.
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In February, prosecutors accused the director of Mayak, Russia's main waste processing plant in the Ural Mountains, of allowing tons of radioactive nuclear waste to flow into a nearby river.
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In view of the radioactive nature of thorium, a hazard is posed from waste produced in the processing of rare earth oxides, which contains it.
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Metal-processing facilities already face contamination problems when they inadvertently accept medical devices and other radioactive products, Mr. Danjczek said.
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The problem is that there was a previous plant there (processing material from the local tin ores) which left quite a bit of radioactive residue around the place.
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