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In New Jersey, Radioactive Cleanup Nears End
New Jersey - A New Jersey county is in the last phases of an intensive U.S. Environmental Protection Agency project to remove the radium-contaminated soil upon which homes in several communities were built.
Problems in Essex County began nearly a century ago, when the U.S. Radium Corporation (now defunct) processed radium in the City of Orange Township in the early 1900s.