Anti-nuclear groups visit waste site in Palos Township

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Akiko Yoshidfrom Friends Earth Tokyo looks as people take radiatireadings stone marker site buried nuclear waste from Manhattan Project Red

Akiko Yoshida, from Friends of the Earth in Tokyo, looks on as people take radiation readings at the stone marker on the site of buried nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project at Red Gate Woods in Palos Township, Illinois, Monday, December 3, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun Times Media

Anti-nuclear supporters marking 70th anniversary Manhattan Project gathered take radiatireadings look around buried nuclear waste site Red Gate Woods Palos

Anti-nuclear supporters marking the 70th anniversary of the Manhattan Project gathered to take radiation readings and look around the buried nuclear waste site at Red Gate Woods in Palos Township, Illinois, Monday, December 3, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun Times Media

Nikos Pastos from Center For Water Advocacy casts his shadow stone marker while photographing buried nuclear waste site Manhattan Project

Nikos Pastos, from the Center For Water Advocacy, casts his shadow on a stone marker while photographing the buried nuclear waste site of the Manhattan Project on its 70th anniversary at Red Gate Woods in Palos Township, Illinois, Monday, December 3, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun Times Media

Gail Snyder Homer Glen talks with others about radiatireadings she is getting her meter site buried nuclear waste from

Gail Snyder, of Homer Glen, talks with others about the radiation readings she is getting on her meter at the site of the buried nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project at Red Gate Woods in Palos Township, Illinois, Monday, December 3, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun Times Media

Anti-nuclear supporters marking 70th anniversary Manhattan Project walk past capped well heads surrounding buried nuclear waste site Red Gate Woods

Anti-nuclear supporters marking the 70th anniversary of the Manhattan Project walk past capped well heads surrounding the buried nuclear waste site at Red Gate Woods in Palos Township, Illinois, Monday, December 3, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun Times Media

Nikos Pastos from Center For Water Advocacy takes last minute photograph stone marker buried nuclear waste site Manhattan Project as

Nikos Pastos, from the Center For Water Advocacy, takes a last minute photograph of the stone marker at the buried nuclear waste site of the Manhattan Project as a group departs following a tour of the area at Red Gate Woods in Palos Township, Illinois, Monday, December 3, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun Times Media

Seventy years and a day after the first atomic chain reaction, opponents of nuclear energy gathered Monday at a forest preserve in Palos Township. The peaceful Red Gate Woods is where radioactive waste was buried decades ago on a site topped with a granite marker …