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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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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”).

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