On Tuesday, February 7th, 2012, at 23:38:08h +0000, Mark Zenier wrote:

tankloads of really radioactive crap that's still there, 65 years later

Some people in the UK newsgroups may think you are just talking about
a dozen or less tankloads, nothing really significant.

It is budgetwise and timewise the World's Biggest Environmental Cleanup.

http://www.kuow.ORG/northwestnews.php?storyID=145321419

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Hanford officials had estimated there were about 10 kilograms
of plutonium in the site's 56 million gallons of radioactive sludge.

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http://www.loe.ORG/shows/segments.html?programID=12-P13-00005&segmentID=4

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Hanford - a 580 square mile complex along the Columbia River.

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270 billion gallons of contaminated ground water and 53 million gallons
of waste in 177 storage underground tanks.

This waste is the legacy of more than 5 decades of plutonium production making

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All because of the perceived need to produce weapons of mutual annihilation.