Tourists flock to US nuclear facility
JUL 31, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023555
BBC NEWS : America’s first nuclear weapons production facility has become the center of a growing tourism industry.More than 60 years after plutonium was first produced at Hanford, Washington State , the US government is running limited visits to the site.Many locals are proud of their heritage, but Hanford has left another legacy: massive radioactive contamination.And now billions of dollars of President Obama’s stimulus money is being spent on cleaning up what is one of the most polluted places in the US.
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