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Envirocare of Utah has begun work under an $8.3 million contract to clean up radioactive waste from a Massachusetts Superfund cleanup site where uranium-tipped bullets used to be made, The Boston Globe reports. The Tooele County radioactive waste disposal company is expected to remove 3,800 barrels of uranium waste and 317 tons of uranium-contaminated cleanup material from the 46-acre Starmet Corp. site in West Concord. The initial cleanup, funded by the Army, is expected to take six months. Further cleanup, if needed, is expected to last as long as two years. The Globe said Starmet's predecessor, Nuclear Metals Inc., produced uranium-tipped bullets for the Army from 1970 to 1999. The site was added to the Superfund toxic waste cleanup priority list in 2001.
