Stimulus $$$ cleans up atomic dumps

I didn't realize just how much of this year's $787 billion stimulus bill has gone toward cleaning up the various sites used to develop atomic energy and weapons in the middle of the last century. According to this article in today's New York Times, over 10,000 people have been hired to clean up waste at places like Los Alamos and Hanford, Wash.

The downside? "... the Department of Energy is responsible for cleaning up 107 sites, with as much acreage as Delaware and Rhode Island combined, in work that could take decades and cost up to $260 billion to complete." Ouch.