US Feds Bury Radioactive Waste on Military Base (VIDEO)

U.S. Air Force official Steve Mayer is bothered by California's refusal to inherit the radioactive waste dump he's building outside Sacramento, he doesn't show it.

He's plowing ahead with plans at the old McClellan Air Force Base to entomb soil contaminated with radium-226, a glow-in-the-dark substance that can cause cancer, and pass ownership of it to the city of Sacramento.

The California Department of Public Health has made it clear that state laws don't permit the move. Even if they did, Sacramento's city manager says he wants nothing to do with the dump.

But Mayer's playing the long game. By 2019, when the military wants to hand over the arena-sized dump to the city, he's hoping he won't have to deal with the current crop of state regulators and city officials balking at his plans.