CSPAN Washington Journal Edwin Lyman Discusses Nuclear Waste Safety May 12, 2017
Ts a 500square mile expanse in remote interior washington. 200 miles from seattle, created in world war ii as part of the Manhattan Project build the atomic bomb. Happened this week there . Guest workers were doing an inspection of an area at hanford called 200 east, which is where factory operated plutonium for weapons during the cold war, and they discovered a hole feet. Ground, 400 square the problem was this hole was tunnel, over a waste which the site had used for radioactivelow away waste they didnt know what to do with. There was only eight feet of on top of the tunnel and there was a c...