a lake of mud replete with residue from uranium processing. the team carefully dries out the land to one section at a time. they use what are called weak drains to remove the water from the underground lake so far they've laid around seven and a half thousand kilometers of the artificial textile casing. to ensure the water flows off along the wick drains the mud is squeezed in similar style to a sponge. layer upon layer of sand gravel and mineral soil other than piled on top of the mud. the work here won't be finished for another ten years germany seems to have a plan for dealing with this toxic legacy the us less so the older she was in the german approach shows one essential difference to the us the cleanup operations there are primarily focused on the processing plants. meanwhile little or nothing