Ten Thousand Years
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The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Waste isolation pilot plant, w ip p, or whip, was ordered into existence by congress in 19 79. The thinking was the us. Ought to have a safe place to put radioactive by products from nuclear weapons manufacturing and nuclear power plants. Exposure to radioactive materials can destroy your body at a molecular level. It can leave burns. It can even mutate your diana.
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