What's the largest environmental cleanup site in the world?
It's located in the beautiful state of Washington at a place called Hanford, a former nuclear-weapons producing facility now known as the most contaminated nuclear site in the United States. This single nuclear weapons production facility alone produced over 53 million gallons of waste in underground tanks, almost 40 percent of which has leaked into the ground and water supply. And this is just one site...
It's located in the beautiful state of Washington at a place called Hanford, a former nuclear-weapons producing facility now known as the most contaminated nuclear site in the United States. This single nuclear weapons production facility alone produced over 53 million gallons of waste in underground tanks, almost 40 percent of which has leaked into the ground and water supply. And this is just one site...
Loading contaminated soil into a truck with a former plutonium production reactor in the background.
There is currently a petition doing the rounds to call upon President Obama to make a world free of nuclear weapons an urgent priority and to assure U.S. leadership to realize this goal.
Located in southeastern Washington State, Hanford is a 1,520-square-kilometer (586-square-mile) site created in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project was America’s effort to develop the atomic bomb before Nazi Germany. The effort at Hanford focused on making plutonium for such bombs. More...
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