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The Hanford Site is most polluted toxic waste site in the United States and its located on the Columbia River in the Tri Cities area of Washington and is operated by the United States federal government. Founded in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project in the town of Hanford, the Hanford site is home to the first plutonium production reactor in the world. The plutonium manufactured at the site was the first nuclear bomb in United State history.
Through the Cold War, the site expanded to include nine nuclear reactors and five large plutonium processing complexes, which produced plutonium for most of the 60,000 nuclear weapons. Many of the safety procedures and waste disposal practices were and still are inadequate, and recent soil testing along the Columbia River in southeastern Washington confirms that Hanford's site operations released significant amounts of radioactive materials into the air and into the Columbia River.
After decades of manufacturing, Hanford operations left behind 53 million US gallons (200,000 m3) of high-level radioactive waste (tank waste);an additional 25 million cubic feet (710,000 m3) of solid radioactive waste buried inside the tank farms.
Hanford is the nation's largest environmental cleanup site. With over 2500 known toxic chemicals inside the tank farms ( also known as Area 200 west/east), Hanford workers are sick and dying from cancers such leukemia, and lung, brain, skin and throat cancers to name a few. The biggest health problems workers face at Hanford are damage to their lungs and solvent induced solvent disease ( early dementia).
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