Trump’s nominee for energy secretary called finishing the environmental cleanup at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington critical ... saying the United States must lead the world ...
The Hanford site, adjacent to Richland in Eastern Washington, produced nearly two-thirds of the plutonium from World War II through the Cold War for the nation's nuclear weapons program.
More than 35 years after a Tri-Party Agreement was forged to promote cleanup at Eastern Washington’s Hanford site, the people of our state are still waiting for meaningful action.
Courtesy Department of Energy The 580-square-mile Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington was used from World War II through the Cold War to produce plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons ...