Waste, Radiation, and Danger; The Hanford Nuclear Power Plants.

Waste, Radiation, and Danger; The Hanford Nuclear Power Plants Are nuclear power plants dangerous? In a word, yes, and Hanford is one of the oldest ones around, producing radiation since 1944. Radioactive materials emitted from a nuclear power plant, such as Hanford, can injure living tissue, and a high enough dose can kill. The public has seen the danger, although over a decade ago, the meltdown at Chernobyl will not be forgotten, and cannot because the …showed first 75 words of 1145 total…

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