#hanford — Public Fediverse posts

Making radioactive waste less safe at #Hanford:

"Feds file to change way Eastern WA radioactive waste is treated”

#nuclear

https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article316829402.html

New Report on the Most Toxic Place in America - Columbia Riverkeeper

https://www.columbiariverkeeper.org/2026/new-report-hanford-nuclear-site-cleanup/ #Hanford #nuclear #nuclearwaste

as:
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.. U.S. produced plutonium for Cold War nuclear weapons in Washington. Decades later, 56 million gallons of highly radioactive waste remain
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".. debate ..how much waste should receive that highest level of protection .. ongoing for years. .. potential long-term risks to groundwater and .. Columbia River."

https://en.as.com/latest_news/the-us-produced-plutonium-for-cold-war-nuclear-weapons-in-washington-decades-later-56-million-gallons-of-highly-radioactive-waste-remain-f202608-n/

5.8.2026

#Atomkraft #Atommüll #ColumbiaRiver #Hanford #HanfordSite #Kernenergie #NuclearWaste #Pollution #Plutonium #PU #RadioactiveWaste #TankFarm #USA #Water

20% funding cut for #Hanford cleanup?

"GOP budget plan in US House calls for cuts at Hanford #nuclear cleanup site”

https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/05/21/repub/gop-budget-plan-in-us-house-calls-for-cuts-at-hanford-nuclear-cleanup-site/

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Hanford Safety issues raised after WA nuclear site lost 37% of fed staff under Trump cuts
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"Of particular concern at Hanford, were 29 engineers and scientists, including some federal project directors, that the GAO called “mission-critical staff.”"

"DOE has been losing knowledge at a rapid rate .."

https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article315828772.html

21.5.2026

#Atomkraft #Atommüll #DOE #GAO #Hanford #Kernenergie #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste #USA

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GOP budget plan in U.S. House calls for cuts at Hanford nuclear cleanup site
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"While Hanford’s current legal target calls for glassifying all waste by 2052, the Department of Energy has internally moved those targets back to 2069, according to a 2021 report by the Government Accountability Office..."

https://www.yelmonline.com/stories/gop-budget-plan-in-us-house-calls-for-cuts-at-hanford-nuclear-cleanup-site,402869

21.5.2026

#Atomkraft #Atommüll #DOE #EPA #Hanford #Kernenergie #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste #USA

Hanford!

"The spill of cesium and strontium in the soil beneath the 324 Building is so radioactively hot that it would be lethal to a worker on direct contact within two minutes, DOE has said previously.”

#Hanford #nuclear

https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article276863128.html

The slow move away from fully funding the cleanup at #Hanford continues:

"Murray, union leaders warn of layoffs under Trump proposed Hanford budget”

https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article315657038.html

Anytime a tank is emptied on purpose at #Hanford it is good news:

"Radioactive waste emptied from aging, leak-prone tank in Eastern WA"

https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article315595925.html

#TheSpokesman:
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‘Slap in the face’: White House proposes $400M cut at Hanford nuclear site
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".. Hanford Office of River Protection is responsible for 56 million gallons of radioactive + hazardous chemical waste..."

".. hold on deactivation of the Hanford 324 Bldg. which sits over a leak of highly radioactive cesium +strontium 1000 feet from the Columbia River .."

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/apr/04/slap-in-the-face-white-house-proposes-400m-cut-at-/

4.4.2026

#Atomkraft #Atommüll #ColumbiaRiver #DOE #Hanford #Kernenergie #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste #USA

They really want to walk away from the costs of managing “legacy waste”:

"Trump admin proposes $400M cut at #Hanford #nuclear site. ‘Slap in the face’”

https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/state/washington/article315292066.html

Hype for the Future 146C: Kings County, California

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/hype-for-the-future-146c-kings-county-california/

From 2013: Ten Most #Radioactive Places on Earth Mapped Out [GRAPHIC]

"Do you know the dirty side of the #NuclearIndustry? After researching this article by brainz.org, we were shocked to find out how truly awful our radioactive waste problem is and how it is going to be hurting us all, for a long time to come. Please take the time to read the links below, share this with your friends, and discuss solutions to these problems. ~ Jim Lee, #ClimateViewer News

"This list is not a definitive TOP TEN, it is simply ten very disgusting examples of nuclear warfare against the citizens of this world."

Read more:
https://climateviewer.com/2013/11/24/10-most-radioactive-places-on-earth/

#Hanford #Sellafield #Chernobyl #Fukushima #Mediterranean #Mayak #SomalianCoast #Kazakhstan #Chernobyl #Kyrgyzstan #EnvironmentalRacism #IndigenousPeoples #SiberianChemicalCompound #NoNukes #RethinkNotRestart #RenewablesNow #NuclearDumping #NuclearColonialism

Sounds groovy! What could go wrong?

"Feds think they can do Eastern WA #nuclear waste cleanup faster, cheaper. Here’s how”

#Hanford #WA #PDX

https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/state/washington/article314836698.html

Aviation weather for Hanford Municipal airport (USA) is “KHJO 151853Z AUTO 00000KT M1/4SM FG VV002 07/07 A3016 RMK AO2 SLP216 T00670067 $” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/khjo/en #hanfordmunicipalairport #airport #hanford #usa #khjo #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek vl

Aviation weather for Hanford Municipal airport (USA) is “SPECI KHJO 182034Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM BKN024 OVC033 14/08 A2996 RMK AO2 T01440083” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/khjo/en #hanfordmunicipalairport #airport #hanford #usa #khjo #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek vl

2025 #UraniumFilmFestival - To Use a Mountain

USA, 2025, Director Casey Carter, Producers: Colleen Cassingham, Jonna McKone, Documentary, 99 min.

"In 1982, the United States began their search for a landfill site for their most dangerous #NuclearWaste. The Department for Energy at the time preselected six sites across the country. Each of these areas were studied and documented in detail, and their residents consulted. The film, which adopts an observational yet sensitive tone, offers us a topography of these sites and their residents. In #Texas, #Utah, #Mississippi, #Nevada, the communities excavate memories of their confrontations with the administration, as well as the distress and outcry that these caused. The film travels across America goes back in time, reminding us that these lands were originally stolen from their first occupants, as we rediscover the intimate links between nuclear, civil and military powers."

FMI - https://beyondnuclear.org/to-use-a-mountain-yucca-nts-doc-film/

#YuccaMountain #NuclearWaste #NoNukes #NoNuclearWeapons #Shoshone #Paiute #WesternShoshone #RethinkNotRestart #NuclearColonialism #WIPP #NuclearWasteRepository #Hanford #Pantex #InternationalUraniumFilmFestival

机场Hanford Municipal (USA)航空天气 是 “KHJO 011953Z AUTO VRB03KT 9SM CLR 24/13 A3010 RMK AO2 SLP193 T02390128” : 查看上的含义 https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/khjo/zh #hanfordmunicipal # #hanford #usa #khjo #metar #aviation #航空气象 #avgeek vl

Hackaday Links: October 19, 2025 - After a quiet week in the news cycle, surveillance concern Flock jumped right back... - https://hackaday.com/2025/10/19/hackaday-links-october-19-2025/ #solarfreakinroadways #manhattanproject #hackadaycolumns #lawenforcement #hackadaylinks #colorcomputer #glowinthedark #phoshorescent #surveillance #virtualtour #colorburst #wearables #hanford #flock #coco #ntsc #park #ring #uav

Hackaday Links: October 19, 2025 https://hackaday.com/2025/10/19/hackaday-links-october-19-2025/ #SOLARFREAKINROADWAYS #ManhattanProject #HackadayColumns #lawenforcement #Hackadaylinks #colorcomputer #glowinthedark #hackadaylinks #phoshorescent #surveillance #virtualtour #colorburst #Wearables #3.579545 #Hanford #Flock #CoCo #ntsc #Park #ring #uav

“As feds talk of changing course on #Hanford #nuclear cleanup, #WA officials get heated”

https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/09/15/repub/as-feds-talk-of-changing-course-on-hanford-nuclear-cleanup-wa-officials-get-heated/

“Update: $30B nuclear waste plant can ‘finally’ start. WA leaders react - Tri-City Herald”

Keep your eyes on this story as it continues to take weird reversals.

#Hanford #nuclear #NuclearPOwer

https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article312155051.html

“Washington State Governor Bob Ferguson fired a shot across the bow at the U.S. Energy Department Friday, threatening legal action if plans to clean up the #Hanford Nuclear Reservation are put on hold, or cancelled completely.”

#DOE #nuclear

https://mynorthwest.com/local/washington-state-braces-for-legal-battle-over-trump-administrations-possible-delay-of-hanford-cleanup/4131323

Meanwhile, the mood in the Tri-Cities, where #Hanford is located and provides most jobs:

"‘Catastrophic threat’ to startup of massive Hanford nuclear cleanup plant rumored”

https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article312026807.html

Trump’s #DOE to go in a “different direction” in managing the #radioactive waste at #Hanford.

"DOE fires top Trump official overseeing Hanford cleanup”

By "different direction," read: less funding and less remediation

#nuclear #NuclearPower

https://www.eenews.net/articles/doe-fires-top-trump-official-overseeing-hanford-cleanup/

The Rise and Fall of #NuScale: a nuclear cautionary tale

Kelly Campbell
October 29, 2024

"A decade ago, NuScale, the Oregon-based small modular nuclear company born at Oregon State University, was on a roll. Promising a new era of nuclear reactors that were cheaper, easier to build and safer, their Star Wars-inspired artist renditions of a yet to be built reactor gleamed like a magic bullet.

"As of last year, NuScale was the furthest along of any reactor design in obtaining Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing and was planning to build the first small modular nuclear reactor in the United States. Its plan was to build it in Idaho to serve energy to a consortium of small public utility districts in Utah and elsewhere, known as #UAMPS.

"This home-grown Oregon company was lauded in local and national media. According to project backers, a high-tech solution to climate change was on the horizon, and an Oregon company was leading the way. It seemed almost too good to be true.

"And it was.

"Turns out, NuScale was a #HouseOfCards. The UAMPS project’s price tag more than doubled and the timeline was pushed back repeatedly until it was seven years behind schedule. Finally, UAMPS saw the writing on the wall and wisely backed out in November, 2023.

"After losing their customer, NuScale’s stock plunged, it laid off nearly a third of its workforce, and it was sued by its investors and investigated for investor fraud. Then its CEO sold off most of his stock shares.

"NuScale’s project is the latest in a long line of failed nuclear fantasies.

"Why should you care? A different nuclear company, #XEnergy, now in partnership with #AmazonCorp, wants to build and operate small modular #nuclear reactors [#SMRs] near the #ColumbiaRiver, 250 miles upriver from #PortlandOR. #BillGates’s darling, the #Natrium reactor in #Wyoming is also plowing ahead. Both proposals are raking in the Inflation Reduction Act and other taxpayer funded subsidies. The danger: Money and time wasted on these #FalseSolutions to the #ClimateCrisis divert public resources from #renewables, #EnergyEfficiency and other faster, more cost-efficient and safer ways to address the climate crisis.

"A recent study from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis concluded that small modular nuclear reactors are still too expensive, too slow to build and too risky to respond to the climate crisis.

"While the nuclear industry tries to pass itself off as 'clean,' it is an extremely dirty technology, beginning with #UraniumMining and #UraniumMilling which decimates #IndigenousLands. Small modular nuclear reactors produce two to thirty times the radioactive waste of older nuclear designs, waste for which we have no safe, long-term disposal site. Any community that hosts a nuclear reactor will likely be saddled with its radioactive waste – forever. This harm falls disproportionately on #Indigenous and #LowIncome communities.

:For those of us downriver, X-Energy’s plans to build at the Hanford Nuclear Site on the Columbia flies in the face of reason, as it would add more nuclear waste to the country’s largest nuclear cleanup site.

"In #Oregon, we have a state moratorium on building nuclear reactors until there is a vote of the people and a national waste repository. Every few years, the nuclear industry attempts to overturn this law at the Oregon Legislature, but so far it has been unsuccessful. This August, Umatilla County Commissioners announced they’ll attempt another legislative effort to overturn the moratorium. Keeping this moratorium is wise, given the dangerous distraction posed by the false solution of small modular nuclear reactors. Let’s learn from the NuScale debacle and keep our focus on a just transition to a clean energy future–one in which nuclear power clearly has no place."

https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/10/29/the-rise-and-fall-of-nuscale-a-nuclear-cautionary-tale/

#EnvironmentalRacism #HoltecLies
#NuclearLies #TEPCOLied
#NoNukes #NoNukesForAI #Hanford #NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies

Full moon over the Columbia River on August 9, 2025

#Hanford #Nagasaki

People in Hanford, California protested against fascism and monarchy. #NoKings #Hanford @huffmans

“The Trump administration has proposed a budget for the Hanford nuclear site for the next fiscal year that appears to maintain funding at current levels, but likely is inadequate to meet legal deadlines.”

#Hanford #nuclear

https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/state/washington/article307569936.html