WWII History Of Hanford To Be Preserved By WSU

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) Washington State University has signed a contract to help preserve the Manhattan Project and Cold War history of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
WSU Tri-Cities will provide curatorial and archive services, as well as a repository for the collection.
The contract with WSU will ensure expert care of the collection and make it available to the community, students, researchers, and the visiting public.
Hanford was created by some 50,000 workers during World War II to make plutonium for nuclear weapons and continued to make plutonium during most of the Cold War era. The site is now engaged in a massive nuclear waste cleanup.