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CT: From 1954 to 1963 the burial ground was used for some of the worst waste generated at the Hanford nuclear reservation’s 300 Area just north of Richland.
At the 300 Area uranium fuel was fabricated to be irradiated at Hanford’s reactors to produce plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons, and the area was used to research many of the processes used to produce plutonium, creating highly radioactive and chemically contaminated waste.
Much of the worst of the laboratory waste created over nearly a decade was disposed of at the 618-10 Burial Ground.
S: TRI CITY HERALD – https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article224791300.html (last access: 20 January 2021)
N: 1. – burial (adj): “act of burying,” late 13c.; earlier “tomb” (c. 1200), false singular from Old English byrgels “tomb,” from byrgan “to bury” + suffix -els; a compound also found in Old Saxon burgisli, suggesting a Proto-Germanic *burgisli-, from PIE root *bhergh- (1) “to hide, protect.” The Germanic suffix *-isli- (also in riddle (n.1), Old English hydels “hiding place,” fætels “bag”) became obsolete and was felt as a plural of the Latin-derived suffix -al (2) forming nouns of action from verbs (survival, approval, removal, etc.). In the “act of burying a dead person” sense it is now regarded as bury + -al. Burial-ground is from 1803.
– ground (n): Old English grund “bottom; foundation; surface of the earth,” also “abyss, Hell,” and “bottom of the sea” (a sense preserved in run aground), from Proto-Germanic *grundu-, which seems to have meant “deep place” (source also of Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Danish, Swedish grund, Dutch grond, Old High German grunt, German Grund “ground, soil, bottom;” Old Norse grunn “a shallow place,” grund “field, plain,” grunnr “bottom”). No known cognates outside Germanic.
2. A disposal site for unwanted radioactive materials that uses earth or water for a shield.
3. radioactive waste products can be mixed with concrete and buried in the ground or ocean.
4. burial ground: term standardized by ISO.
S: 1. OED – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=burial; https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=ground (last access: 14 January 2021). 2 to 4. TERMIUM – PLUS https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=CEMENTERIO+NUCLEAR&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 14 January 2021).
SYN: graveyard, cemetery, radioactive burial ground. (depending on context)
S: TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=CEMENTERIO+NUCLEAR&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 20 January 2021)
