The Office of Environmental Management is currently responsible for cleaning up 16 nuclear weapon sites in 11 states, but none of these sites is larger, more complex, more expensive, or more challenging than the Hanford Site in the State of Washington.
Maria Cantwell: “The Office of Environmental Management is currently responsible for cleaning up 16 nuclear weapon sites in 11 states…”
On the recordJanuary 17, 2018
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Cantwell highlights the complexity of the Hanford Site cleanup compared to other sites.
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