Rabbits Deposit Radioactive Clues on the Landscape

The Hanford site, overseen by the federal Department of Energy, produced roughly two-thirds of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear weapons arsenal, beginning in World War II and ending in the 1980s. Today it is the focus of the nation’s largest environmental cleanup, an effort that has cost tens of billions of dollars and is expected to continue for decades. Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
3.8
by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 16, 2009

Interesting side aspects of the nuclear waste disaster in Washington state are presented. Radioactive waste passage into the ecosystem, and potentially humans adds an urgency to this much neglected cleanup. The critical threat to the Columbia River is not mentioned.

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