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The Legacy of Hanford
Alvarez, Robert | August 18, 2003 issue

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This article comments on the continued evasion by the U.S. government of its responsibility for massive contamination the Hanford B reactor in Hanford, Washington has produced from 1943 until it was closed down in 1990. The federal government finally acknowledged its responsibility in the late 1980s for Hanford and other similar places around the U.S. and began the largest, most expansive and most challenging environmental cleanup program in the history of the country. Now, however, the Department of Environment is proposing to put a stop to its environmental mission in Hanford, as part of efforts to free up tens of billions of dollars for other military purposes.

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CONTAMINATION (Technology); NUCLEAR reactors; REMEDIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL protection; POLLUTION; FEDERAL regulation; UNITED States
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