Workers at the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant are now wearing radiological dosimeters for the first ...

A 1992 article published in the New York Times explains that radiation released from the Hanford site into the river had reached the Pacific Ocean, over 322 kilometers (200 miles) downstream.

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