Nuclear Waste Leak Traced To --- Kitty Litter

From Forbes - Tech:

You might have heard that the most likely culprit for the Valentine's Day radioactive leak was…kitty litter! Yes. The wrong kitty litter was probably used to treat some of the nuclear waste recently disposed in the world's only deep underground nuclear waste repository, near Carlsbad in New Mexico. Cat litter has been used for decades in radiochemistry labs and nuclear facilities to stabilize certain radwastes, like liquid scintillation solutions, evaporator bottoms, and other materials that have nitrate salts in solution.

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