G4. Owl with Drums. A painted plastic owl is meant to deter birds and mice from nesting among drums of transuranic waste contaminated with plutonium and other long-lived radioactive heavy elements. Nuclear weapons research, design, and development generated most waste stored here. Transuranic Waste Storage Dome, Building 48 East, Technical Area 54, Area G, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. 24 February 1994.
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