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Under an Old Alsace Mine, some 42,000 Tonnes of Waste Have Been Sleeping Since 1999 at 500 Metres of Bottom

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There are places that one would prefer to forget, but that geology and chemistry are in charge of reminding us regularly. Under the quiet streets of Wittelsheim, in the Upper Rhine, an old potash mine has been home since the late 1990s to a bulky secret: 42,000 tons of toxic waste, never recovered, [...]
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There are places that one would prefer to forget, but that geology and chemistry are in charge of reminding us regularly. Under the quiet streets of Wittelsheim, in the Upper Rhine, an old potash mine has been home since the late 1990s to a bulky secret: 42,000 tons of toxic waste, never recovered, [...]

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SciencePost broke the news on Thursday, September 17, 2026.
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