department of energy calls hanford the world's largest environmental cleanup project pampered washington is the site where the united states says essentially accumulated its nuclear waste mostly from weapons work also from nuclear power and other radioactive related industries hanford was constructed in one thousand nine hundred eighty two under the top secret manhattan project its location along the columbia river provided a ready source of water for cooling nuclear reactors hanford engineering works produce the plutonium used in the trinity test device and in the fat man released on august saki production of plutonium intensified during the cold war in one thousand and sixty three the dual purpose n. reactor was constructed to generate nuclear power for civilian use when the reactor building completed nineteen sixty three. to break for the construction of the power plant. and i think it's a proper get that we. have so much it's been done to battle but not. find a chance to strike a blow. to find a chance to strike a blow for a better life. this is a great. i can assure you. from the wo

location along the columbia river provided a ready source of water for cooling nuclear reactors the hanford engineering works produced the plutonium used in the trinity test device and in the fat man released on august saki production of plutonium intensified during the cold war in one thousand and sixty three the dual purpose n. reactor was constructed to generate nuclear power for civilian use when the reactor building completed nineteen sixty three. to break for the construction of the power. and i think it's very appropriate that we've. just been done the battle but not. to find a chance to strike a blow. to find a chance to strike a blow for a better life. this is a great man. i can assure you. from the work we began today. that life works out. for the electricity but the world we live in the united states we are moving in. providing security for our people. but. since the production of ceased in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven cleanup has been the only mission at the nuclear reservation there are fifty three million gallons of high level radioactive and chemical waste and fraud