Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Road Trip: Washington D.C.


Look, it's the National Pond Scum

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Hanford: Now even more contaminated!

For years, the Hanford site on the Columbia River has been known as the most contaminated nuclear site in North America.

Now the New York Times reports that “the amount of plutonium buried at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State is nearly three times what the federal government previously reported.”

That doesn’t mean that the site is three times as contaminated as previously thought — sigh of relief — since plutonium is just one of the deadly, poorly contained toxins at the site. But with a half-life of 24,000 years, it’s a concern. Cleaning it up will be a complex process, “perhaps requiring technologies that do not yet exist,” the Times reports whimsically.