Beatty is a chemical and radioactive waste disposal site, the first officially permitted commercial radioactive waste site to open in the USA. Beatty opened in 1970, though operations there date back to 1962. It was one of the few commercial facilities that accepted mixed low-level radioactive hazardous/PCB wastes. The site was famous briefly for lending radioactive machinery to building projects in the nearby town of Beatty, including the construction of a county office building and the Sourdough Saloon (after which, when this fact was made known, the buildings had to be torn down, and were disposed of in the site). Beatty ceased to accept radioactive wastes in 1992, and the radioactive cell was officially closed. It's owners, U.S. Ecology, continue to use the site as a non-radioactive hazardous waste disposal site.
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