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The 586-square-miles in Washington
State, known as Hanford Nuclear Site,
has been the home of creation for
many nuclear weapons from I 943 to
1987. It’s most famous weapon being
the Atomic Bomb that was dropped on
Japan in 1945 and ended World War I
(“Handford Overview”). The process
of making these weapons has created
large amount of waste that now has
contaminated the soil and created
underground rivers that are actively
pursuing the Columbia River. Cleanup
crews are working on blocking the
nuclear waste so it doesn’t infect the
water supply adjacent to the site.
Reactor buildings, support facilities, and
auxiliary structures are all being torn
down as a part of the cleanup process
too(”Hanford Cleanup”).
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THE HANFORD NUCLEAR SITE HAS
BEEN THE PLACE OF PRODUCTION
FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS SINCE 1943
(“HANFORD OVERVIEW”).
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Nuclear Site
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Hanford Overview and History.”
Hanford Site. N.p., 12 Sept.
2012. Web. 25 Feb. 2013
“Hanford C’eanup.” Hanford
Site. N.p., 11 Sept. 2012. Web. 25
Feb. 2013.
“6 Tanks at Hanford NucLear Site
in Wash. Leaking.” CBSNeWS.
CBS Interactive, 22 Feb. 2013.
Web. 25 Feb. 2013.
Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, and
Mala Bellon, director I the Department
of Ecology, met on February I 5, 20 I 3 to
discuss a leaking tank at Hanford
Nuclear Site. They discussed six tanks
that are leaking waste and concluded
that they need to take a more
immediate course of action. An
estimated I million gallons of waste
have already leaked on this site, making
it the most contaminated nuclear site in
the country. Each year about $2 billion
is spent on the cleanup process of the
Hanford Nuclear Site. Suggestions like
building additional tanks have been
advocated to guarantee safe storage of
the waste until the site is restored. Tom
Carpenter, part of a Hanford watch
group said, “None of these [current]
tanks would be acceptable for use
today. They are all beyond their design
life. None of them should be in service.
And yet, they’re holding two-thirds of
the nation’s high-level nuclear waste.”
It will be decades till the site is
completely decontaminated, but
absolutely necessary to our health and
future (“6Tanks”).
ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS Recent News: on the Hanford AND SOLUTIONS