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Nuclear reactors line the riverbank at the Hanford Site along the Columbia River, January 1960. The N Reactor is in the foreground, with the twin KE and KW Reactors in the immediate background. The historic B Reactor, the world's first plutonium production reactor, is visible in the distance. (Photo: Public Domain/WikiCommons)

A travel to 160 forgotten nuclear sites in the US

Nuclear Age October 8, 2015 at 7:25 am 0 comments

Based on the sites they’ve found, the atomic travelers estimates a huge fraction of the population had a hand in creating nuclear weapons, whether they knew it or not.

Washington State Ghost Town—Hanford. Courtesy of photographer, Clane Gessel.

$40 Billion Spent, and America’s Biggest Nuclear Dump Is Still Leaking

Community Updates, Nuclear Waste July 23, 2014 at 7:42 pm 0 comments

It’s cost $40 billion so far to clean up America’s biggest nuclear waste site—half the size of Rhode Island—and it’s going to take another 40 years and $100 billion to finish the job.

Hanford: The Largest Environmental Cleanup Operation in US History

Hanford: The Largest Environmental Cleanup Operation in US History

Nuclear Waste, Radiation and Health February 25, 2013 at 3:23 pm 1 comment

This month, the Department of Energy announced that a tank at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State is leaking up to 300 gallons of radioactive waste a year. Then last week, Washington governor Jay Inslee corrected that figure: a total of six tanks are leaking. To people unfamiliar with Hanford, this might sound mildly apocalyptic.

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