Hanford: Nuclear Trouble
Channel: wileydog420
Date: 2014-05-15

The Hanford Site is a mostly decommissioned extremely radioactive nuclear production complex operated by the United States federal government on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington. 

The site has been known by many names, including: Hanford Project, Hanford Works, Hanford Engineer Works or HEW and Hanford Nuclear Reservation or HNR. Established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project in the town of Hanford in south-central Washington, the site was home to the B Reactor, the first full-scale plutonium production reactor in the world .

Plutonium manufactured at the site was used in the first nuclear bomb, tested at the Trinity site, and in Fat Man, the bomb detonated over Nagasaki, Japan. 

Decades of manufacturing left behind 53 million US gallons (200,000 m3) of high-level radioactive waste, an additional 25 million cubic feet (710,000 m3) of solid radioactive waste thats equal to 532 miles of 8 cubic meter cement trucks bumper to bumper , 200 square miles (520 km2) of contaminated groundwater beneath the site . Not to mention the 450 billion gallons dumped into the soil in the 50s and 60s .