Radioactive plutonium and americium have been found in air samples collected at the Rattlesnake Barricade just off public Highway 240, where workers enter the secure area of the Hanford nuclear ...
An internal Hanford memo obtained by the KING 5 Investigators reveals radioactive contamination was found in air samples taken on June 8 on a public highway bordering the site. Radioactive particles ...
Nov. 24—LOS ALAMOS — It's been decades since the U.S. Department of Energy wrapped up a cleanup of a Los Alamos canyon and declared it safe for public recreation. Starting in the 1940s, Acid Canyon ...
“Uranium 235 and plutonium can be denatured; such denatured materials do not readily lend themselves to the making of atomic explosives, but. . . can be used for the peaceful applications of atomic ...