Hanford

Radiation spike near Hanford nuclear waste site ‘natural’ – EPA

RT | May 15, 2016 The US Environmental Protection Agency chalked elevated gamma radiation levels around America’s largest nuclear waste storage facility, the Hanford site, up to natural causes, but RT’s Alexey Yaroshevsky has found a few inconsistencies in its claims. RT has reported extensively on the situation at Washington State’s Hanford Nuclear storage facility […]

Radioactive Contamination from Nuclear Waste Site Spreads in Washington

EPA alarmed by uncontrolled exposure risk Sputnik – 23.02.2016 In November 2015, workers began excavating concrete drums filled with high-level radioactive nuclear waste that had been discarded after uranium fuel fabrication work in the 1960s. The site of the excavation, now a burial ground, is in the notorious town of Hanford, in the state of […]

Nuclear War Theme Parks: Mass Destruction for the Whole Family

By John Laforge | CounterPunch | September 7, 2015 Plutonium was named after Pluto, “god of the underworld,” Hades, or hell. It was created inside faulty reactors, concentrated, and machined by US scientists into the most devastating and horrifying of all weapons. Photos of what the Manhattan Project’s plutonium bomb did to human beings at […]

Hanford Whistleblower Vindicated, Receives $4.1 Million Settlement

By Joshua Frank | The Investigative Fund | August 14, 2015 What a long, strange trip it’s been for engineer Dr. Walter Tamosaitis. Well, perhaps not so much strange as it has been heart-wrenching. Nonetheless, every once in awhile those who are maligned end up being vindicated. That’s exactly what happened last week for Tamosaitis, who […]