Making changes at Hanford has always been difficult. And there are some big changes proposed in Project 2025, like choosing cheaper and faster methods for stabilizing some of the waste.

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“Project 2025 really just represents a huge distraction to the legitimate cleanup going on at Hanford,” Peterson said. Work at the site is complex — politically, scientifically, and legally.

Project 2025 on Hanford site Project 2025, which has served as a blueprint for some policies in the current Trump administration, calls for accelerating the environmental cleanup of DOE sites.

During its operational years, Hanford supplied plutonium for the "Fat Man" bomb dropped on Nagasaki in World War 2 and accounted for 65 percent of the U.S. nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.