by Tyler Durden
And
now for a quick lesson in government spending: in the 1940s the
federal government created the now mostly decommissioned Washington's
Hanford Nuclear Reservation as part of the Manhattan Project to build
the atomic bomb. During the Cold War, the project was expanded to
include nine nuclear reactors and five large plutonium processing
complexes, which produced plutonium for most of the 60,000 weapons in
the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Sadly, many of the early safety procedures
and waste disposal practices were inadequate, and government documents
have since confirmed that Hanford's operations released significant
amounts of radioactive materials into the air and the Columbia River.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-22/radioactive-waste-leaking-washingtons-hanford-nuclear-reservation
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