A panel of nuclear safety experts is warning that design flaws remain unresolved at the facility being built to process dangerous waste at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington. The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board says the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) could explode or cause an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction. In both cases, dangerous levels of radioactivity would likely contaminate the Columbia River, the Tri-Cities and big swaths of productive agricultural land.
K5News 17th Nov 2017 read more »
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