That stands to reason, considering the complicated history of the 580-square-mile Hanford site. The Hanford Reach is a 51-mile section of the Columbia River, on the northeastern border of the area.
The company has already started site evaluation on 8,000 acres, an area nearly 10 times the size of Central Park in New York and enough space for 3.45 million photovoltaic panels. (Hanford’s ...
The Department of Energy staff at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington now has ... that an earthquake could damage the 52-year-old structure and allow a release of radioactive material.