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World’s largest nuclear waste facility turns radioactive materials into glass
The work to turn radioactive waste into glass has begun at the Hanford Site in Washington state. Bechtel started the nuclear ...
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From bombs to glass: Hanford site can now transform nuclear waste
The Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state produced plutonium for most of America's nuclear arsenal through the end ...
The U.S. government set up Hanford in 1943 to create plutonium for the nation’s atomic bombs. That work created billions of ...
At approximately 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexican desert. It was bright, hot, and loud. Scientists and military personnel crouched nearby in ...
Hanford Nuclear Waste FILE - A caution sign is shown on a road on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation on June 2, 2022, in Richland, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File ...
SEATTLE (AP) — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first ...
FILE - A caution sign is shown on a road on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation on June 2, 2022, in Richland, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) SEATTLE (AP) — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling ...
FILE - A caution sign is shown on a road on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation on June 2, 2022, in Richland, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) FILE - A caution sign is shown on a road on the Hanford ...
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