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I suspect most nuclear energy advocates are not necessarily advocates of manufacturing nuclear weapons, which AFAIK is the source of this spill. See https://www

I suspect most nuclear energy advocates are not necessarily advocates of manufacturing nuclear weapons, which AFAIK is the source of this spill. See https://www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/AboutHanfordCleanup https://www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/AboutHanfordCleanup

fsh 3y ago
From the article: In the 1980s one of the building’s six hot cells was being used to prepare concentrated radioactive cesium and strontium from Hanford plutonium-production waste for Germany to use for testing of a repository for radioactive waste. Hanford was used for weapons manufacturing, but the research project was on nuclear energy (Germany never had a nuclear weapons program).
- lockhouse 3y ago
  > (Germany never had a nuclear weapons program) Technically they did, but I know what you meant (not since World War 2)... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nuclear_weapons_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nuclear_weapons_program