"On January 12, the flesh, bones, limbs, and organs cut from the three servicemen were put in a fifty-five-gallon drum, which was then lowered into a lead-shielded box. The box was lifted onto the back of a semi-trailer and driven to an isolated section of the vast Testing Station grounds. The box was dumped into a deep slit trench, and a bulldozer pushed fallow desert dirt over it. An indecorous end to a substantial physical portion of the three men killed in the SL-1 explosion. The body parts had been designated high-level nuclear waste, subject to federal disposal regulations, and so joined, in sealed disposal units, the rest of the highly contaminated debris being generated by the new atomic age."
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