Did you know that Washington state's Hanford Nuclear site contains 2/3 of all the radioactive nuclear waste in the United States? In addition to having the dubious distinction of being the first full-scale plutonium production reactor in the world, it is also North America's most severely contaminated nuclear site. Each year over a third of our federal government's entire budget for nuclear cleanup — roughly $2 billion every single year — is directed toward trying to remediate the huge volatile radioactive mess at Hanford
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