1.5M tons of material cleaned up at F Reactor
Hanford workers have finished environmental cleanup of a reactor area at Hanford, a first for the nuclear reservation, Washington Closure Hanford and the Department of Energy are scheduled to announce Wednesday.
About 1.5 million tons of contaminated material, including building rubble and soil, were removed from the area around F Reactor and away from the Columbia River. Work also included digging up the carcasses of animals used for radiation exposure research in the early years of the Cold War.
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