Where McKinney, Duresky stand on Hanford nuclear site funding

Where McKinney, Duresky stand on Hanford nuclear site funding

Whoever is elected to succeed U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse in Congress will need an appetite for negotiating Cold War-era nuclear waste cleanup.Congress holds the purse strings for cleanup at the Hanford nuclear site, the 580-square-mile site that was left with radioactive and hazardous chemical waste and contamination.Hanford cleanupNearly two-thirds of the plutonium produced for the U.S.’s nuclear weapons program between World War II and the Cold Wa…