Maryann Batlle, Cronkite News Service//December 21, 2012//

[caption id="attachment_54362" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="A worker hoses down the worksite to keep down dust at the uranium transfer site cleanup in Cove, Ariz., this fall. (Photo courtesy U.S. Environmental Protection...

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