Tagged: Plutonium

Nuclear Waste
11:32 am
Tue January 17, 2012

Hanford Waste Tanks May Have More Plutonium Than Earlier Estimated

Credit Hanford.gov / U.S. Department of Energy
Workers at the Hanford Tank Farm

RICHLAND, Wash. – The Hanford Nuclear Reservation’s tank farms in southeast Washington may have much more plutonium than earlier estimated. That’s according to a report by a Hanford contractor that’s just been leaked to public radio. As Anna King reports, At least one high-level Hanford official worries the findings could mean a massive waste treatment plant’s design might need to be altered.

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