More radioactive waste is stored in a flat, sun-bleached area of Eastern Washington than almost anywhere else on the planet. Located along the Columbia River close to Richland, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation produced plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program for many years. The development of weapons ceased with the end of the Cold War. [...]
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