EPA urges Army to rethink plan to end monitoring at toxic site

摘要

U.S. EPA is asking the Army to reconsider its plan to end its Nuclear Regulatory Commissionrnlicense and stop monitoring at the old Jefferson Proving Ground in southern Indiana.rnThe Army conducted ammunition tests at the former firing range from 1941 to 1995, leavingrnbehind 160,000 pounds of depleted-uranium shell fragments, as well as millions of unexplodedrnconventional shells, live detonators, primers or fusers.