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Uncovering How My Grandfather Buried Nuclear Waste in South Carolina

DIGGING UP THE PAST

Henry Horton, a government soil scientist whose top-secret job it was to find safe ways to bury nuclear waste, inspired his granddaughter to write a novel.

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