Hanford predates commercial nuclear power this is manhatten project era site. they made the plutonium for trinnity Nagasaki and they really didn't know much abo

Hanford predates commercial nuclear power this is manhatten project era site. they made the plutonium for trinnity Nagasaki and they really didn't know much about how to handle radio active materials back in the early 40's. Hanford the idea was hey this stuff is dangerous lets through it in the vat of other dangerous stuff* we need to get rid of. * other dangerous stuff being fun things like mustard gas and nerve agents This was supposed to be cleaned up purified put into safe modern radioactive waste containment vessels and stored deep in Yucca mountain until the NIMBY folks got involved.