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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Nuclear Leak


Underground tanks containing nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project are leaking in Washington state:
The Department of Energy, which oversees the site, said last week that one of the 177 tanks at the site was leaking radioactive waste liquids at a rate of 150 to 300 gallons per year. The department said then that the tank, which holds approximately 447,000 gallons of sludge, was the first one documented to be losing liquids since interim stabilization of Hanford’s tanks was completed in 2005.
>>NYTimes

>>Hanford Site [Wiki]

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