Hanford’s former contractor WRPS settles a $6.5M lawsuit over taxpayer fraud allegations, its second fraud-related settlement for inflating costs.

A new report by the feds says cleanup at the Hanford site will take until 2086, with other work needed until 2100.

The Hanford nuclear site was used from World War II through the Cold War to produce almost two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program.

The Hanford site in Washington State made plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, according to the Associated Press. It is about half the size of Rhode Island, according to the AP.

The Hanford site adjacent to Richland was left contaminated by the production of nearly two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation's nuclear weapons program from World War II through the Cold War ...

RICHLAND, Wash. – The Hanford Site has safely disposed of about 2,000 gallons of treated tank waste.