Yucca Flats Project - The Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management. The EPA's Yucca Flats homepage. A whistleblower report on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state. In many ways, it's like divorce court. Ernest C. Hadley of Wareham, Massachusetts Try telling the government that its contractors are putting thousands of people in peril, and you might feel like you're alone on a raft in the middle of the ocean.
Workers are usually the first to recognize safety problems.
And in the nuclear industry, safety violations can be devastating to whole communities and regions. Currently, there are a number of pending lawsuits pitting employees who report violations against their employers. This Forum looks at their plight, and general health and safety issues at nuclear facilities. Waste storage for nuclear weapons production has been a concern for half a century. Add to the equation the emergence of nuclear power plants, and the situation becomes even more complicated.