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Alligators are being monitored for contamination at South Carolina nuclear site

Researchers are testing and releasing alligators living in a reservoir built to cool plutonium-production reactors at South Carolina's Savannah River Site. The animals may preserve a long-term record of site contamination.

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The monitoring highlights enduring environmental and public-safety concerns around a former plutonium-production facility.

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  1. Par Pond, a 2,300-acre South Carolina reservoir dug to cool two plutonium production reactors, now holds several hundred alligators, and researchers keep catching, testing and releasing them, because an animal that lives 40 to 70 years carries the site's whole contamination record in its blood ↗spacedaily.com · Recorded source date: Sep 1, 2026, 2:46 AM UTC

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