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HANFORD NUCLEAR SITE
1,500 residents were displaced from Hanford in 1943; 83 years later, the Washington site holds about 56 million gallons of radioactive and hazardous wasteIn 1943, residents were uprooted from their homes to create the Hanford nuclear site, which played a crucial role in generating plutonium f...- In 1999, Oregon shipped a 1,000-ton nuclear reactor vessel 270 miles up the Columbia river, then buried it in WashingtonOregon's Trojan Nuclear Power Plant reactor vessel traveled 270 miles up the Columbia River. This massive 907-metric-ton vessel was then tr...
- Quote of the day by J. Robert Oppenheimer, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” How the Manhattan Project made a scientist regret his greatest achievementQuote of the day by J. Robert Oppenheimer: At 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the New Mexico desert turned white. A 21,000-ton TNT blast ripped...
- Donald Trump administration’s flip-flop on nuclear workforce raises safety fears: Fires 350 workers, then rehires most of themThe abrupt dismissal and reinstatement of 350 nuclear security staff have sparked concerns over lost expertise and national security risks....
- Sweeping US energy department layoffs hit nuclear security, loans office, sources sayThe Trump administration has laid off 1,200 to 2,000 workers at the Department of Energy, affecting employees in critical areas such as the...
- 'Oppenheimer' sheds new light on the legacies of the Manhattan Project: Nuclear legacy, public health hazards, and governmental secrecyAs Christopher Nolan's film "Oppenheimer" brings attention to the creation of nuclear weapons during World War II, the consequences of the ...
- US nuclear weapons agency hacked in massive cybersecurity breachThe officials of the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on Thursday started coordinating no...
- India, US sign MoU for setting up LIGO observatory in IndiaIndia and the US today signed an MoU for establishing Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in India that will play si...
- Go, LIGO-India go where no one has gone before!There is a huge India connect to this discovery, there are many Indian institutions like the Raman Research Institute which have directly c...
- Leakage reported in six underground nuclear waste tanks in USThe Governor of Washington State said that there is no immediate or near-term health risk associated with these newly discovered leaks.
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