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January 11, 2017

State delegation urges Trump to make Hanford a priority

  • Cleanup at Hanford costs $2 billion a year, employs about 9,000 workers and is expected to take decades to complete.
    • By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
    Associated Press

    SPOKANE — The entire congressional delegation from Washington is asking President-elect Donald Trump to make environmental cleanup of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation a priority.

    Hanford for years made plutonium for nuclear weapons, and now is engaged in a multi-decade cleanup of the resulting waste at a cost of some $2 billion per year.


     
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