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Most radioactive site in US is moving on from the Manhattan Project

Most radioactive site in US is moving on from the Manhattan Project

A nuclear production facility in Washington state, called the Hanford site, once forged the plutonium that reshaped the world. Now it’s forging glass; a quiet act of undoing at one of Earth’s most con...

Vitrification is being used to move the radioactive material into a "safe" form. Then it is stored in trenches or deep underground.

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