The timeline for officials to clean up the biggest, most toxic - TopicsExpress



          

The timeline for officials to clean up the biggest, most toxic nuclear waste site in the Western hemisphere is shrinking.The race to clean up 56 million gallons of radioactive liquid waste sitting at the Hanford site, 230 miles east of Portland, becomes more urgent each year.With an estimated price tag of $120 billion, and a theoretical deadline of 2047, cleanup efforts are continually stalled by obstacles including time, money, the danger of the task at hand, and the sheer vastness of the site. koin/2014/04/24/6-things-know-hanfords-nuclear-waste/
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 19:07:12 +0000

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