Why Hanford?

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation is located on the banks of the Columbia River in eastern Washington State. It is surrounded by fertile land that produces wheat, wine grapes, potatoes, apples, and cherries. The ground under Hanford is basalt, a porous rock through which ground water flows in uncharted streams under high pressure. Radioactive waste from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation
has already been found to have made its way through this ground water to the Columbia River and from ther...