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Polluted Nuclear Weapons Site to Become Tourist Destination
Polluted Nuclear Weapons Site to Become Tourist Destination
Polluted Nuclear Weapons Site to Become Tourist Destination
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The nation's most polluted nuclear weapons production site is now its newest national park. Thousands of people are expected next year to tour the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, home of the world's first full-sized nuclear reactor, near Richland, about 200 miles east of Seattle in south-central Washington. ...
Hanford To Be A National Historical Park
Hanford To Be A National Historical Park
Hanford To Be A National Historical Park
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 70 years ago scientists working in secret created the atomic bomb that ended World War II and ushered the world into the nuclear age. On Tuesday, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz formally established the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, as they sat in a federal building near the White House where plans for the bomb were develo