Washington Nuke Leak Answer May Take Years, Inslee Says
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Washington Governor Jay Inslee said it may take as much as four years to begin transferring radioactive sludge from leaking underground tanks at the former nuclear weapons production complex known as the Hanford Site.
“This is not something that can be done overnight,” Inslee told reporters yesterday after touring part of the U.S. Energy Department’s 586-square-mile reserve in southeast Washington. Plutonium made there went into atomic weapons including “Fat Man,” the bomb detonated over Nagasaki in 1945.