This article was originally published in Delaware Currents, a content partner with South Jersey Climate News.
Following the discovery of more contaminated soil last year, the cleanup of Manhattan Project-era radiological waste at the former DuPont Chambers Works in Deepwater, N.J., will continue until 2038, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said at a recent public presentation in nearby Salem County.
Since the corps began excavation work in 2014, it has removed 92,660 cubic yards — about 3,250 garbage trucks’ worth — of material, much of it contaminated with uranium, the key component in the development of an atomic bomb, the Manhattan Project’s core mission…