The Nuclear Explosion You Never Heard Of...

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missingsky102·Published on May 9, 2014

Thom Hartmann talks with Paul DeRienzo, Independent Journalist working under a grant from the George Polk Awards investigating Hanford nuclear site

NBC Right Now: Explosion at U.S. nuclear site — Kept secret from public — Happened in plant where plutonium was manufactured — "One of the most hazardous buildings" in America — Workers: "Flames shot out... big, loud bang like a shot gun" (VIDEO)

http://enenews.com/nbc-explosion-at-u-s-nuclear-site-kept-secret-from-public-for-weeks-happened-at-plant-where-plutonium-was-manufactured-this-is-one-of-the-most-hazardous-buildings-in-america-flames-s

Fukushima-Style Nuclear Power Plant in Washington Is a Seismic Timebomb

http://ecowatch.com/2014/05/05/fukushima-style-nuclear-plant-seismic-timebomb/

More Washington Nuclear Weapons Workers To Be Screened For Cancer

http://www.kplu.org/term/hanford-nuclear-reservation

Hanford nuclear waste region produces high rate of rare birth defects

http://nuclear-news.net/2014/04/23/hanford-nuclear-waste-region-produces-high-rate-of-rare-birth-defects/

Six reasons to know about Hanford nuclear waste:

The timeline for officials to clean up the biggest, most toxic nuclear waste site in the Western hemisphere is shrinking.

The race to clean up 56 million gallons of radioactive liquid waste sitting at the Hanford site, 230 miles east of Portland, becomes more urgent each year.

With an estimated price tag of $120 billion, and a theoretical deadline of 2047, cleanup efforts are continually stalled by obstacles including time, money, the danger of the task at hand, and the sheer vastness of the site.

Attempts to store liquid and solid radioactive waste from the 586 square-mile site -- which supplied the plutonium for the bomb that ended WWII — have been failing for decades. VIDEO

Accumulation Of Nuclear Waste Turning Into Atomic Time Bomb
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=5251

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- President Barack Obama, March 17, 2011 link

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