National Security F-Up: Nuclear Disaster at Hanford (Arnie Gundersen/Robert Alvarez)
Channel: onthewaytoextinction
Date: 28/05/2013

http://fairewinds.org/podcast/great-haste-made-great-waste-at-hanford

The Hanford nuclear site, located on the Columbia River in Washington state, was built as part of the Manhattan Project to process plutonium for nuclear weapons.  Operated until the end of the Cold War, the decades of weapons production has left Hanford as the most contaminated nuclear site in the US, with  a long history of cover-ups about the leaking high-level radioactive waste. In a project that is currently 10-years behind schedule, the DOE is attempting to build a vitrification plant at Hanford to process and neutralize the massive amounts of radioactive waste left behind by the creation of nuclear bombs. Today, nuclear policy expert Robert Alvarez joins Kevin and Arnie to discuss the ongoing environmental damage to the Hanford site.

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