Hurricane Irma may plow into Savannah River, South Carolina, a site full of Cold War-era nuclear waste

There's a chance the damaging winds and heavy rainfall could affect Savannah River Site, a large Cold War-era nuclear reservation in South Carolina.

The site hosts tens of millions of gallons of liquid nuclear waste in storage tanks, plus burial grounds filled with contaminated objects.

During the Cold War, scientists and technicians there produced weapons-grade bomb material for the US military as well as plutonium-238 for NASA's pluckiest spacecraft.

These activities also created millions of gallons of nuclear waste that's stored in dozens of tanks, plus burial grounds filled with contaminated objects.

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