How odd:
The drum was one of a batch from the Los Alamos National Laboratory
(LANL) in New Mexico that contained a mix of nitrate salts — generated,
for example, in the recovery of plutonium from metal and other scrap
during waste processing — and cellulose in the form of a wheat-based
commercial cat litter used to absorb liquid waste. The DOE believes a reaction between the nitrates and cellulose blew the lid off of the container.
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