Problems plague cleanup at Hanford nuclear waste site

USA Today by Peter Eisler | Jan. 18, 2012 (Special Report)

Seven decades after scientists came here during World War II to create plutonium for the first atomic bomb, a new generation is struggling with an even more daunting task: cleaning up the radioactive mess. Full Story »

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The by-products of making our mega-death machines create their own problems when they must be safely hidden away for 100,000 years.

The “design-build” approach “is good if you’re building a McDonald’s,” said Gene Aloise, the GAO’s director of nuclear ... More »

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