Stored Nuclear Waste May End Up In The Columbia River, Washington State

Millions of gallons of hazardous waste resulting from the nation’s nuclear weapons program lie in a remote location in southeastern Washington state called Hanford. Beneath this desert landscape about two million curies of radioactivity and hundreds of thousands of tons of chemicals are captured within the stratified vadose zone below which gives rise to complex subsurface flow paths. These paths create uncertainties about where the contaminants go and what happens to them. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture on December 2nd, 2007