Fifty-two buildings at Hanford are contaminated, and 240 square miles are uninhabitable due to the radioactivity that has seeped into the soil and ground water: uranium, cesium, strontium, plutonium and other deadly radionuclides. Altogether, more than 204,000 cubic meters of highly radioactive waste remain on site -- two-thirds of the total for the entire US. In one area, discharges of more than 216 million liters of radioactive, liquid waste and cooling water have flowed out of leaky tanks. More than 100,000 spent fuel rods -- 2,300 tons of them -- still sit in leaky basins close to the Columbia River.
State of the Hanford Site Meetings
6:00 p.m. Open House; 6:45 p.m. Hanford Story Video 7:00 p.m. Town Hall
Jantzen Beach Red Lion Hotel 909 N. Hayden Island Drive
And across the Middle East, the Defense Contractors stage their biggest trade show yet at the expense of the Libyan people. Talk about "exploitation"; if the US is not exploiting the rebels for all they're worth then we just aren't getting our money's worth as taxpayers, are we? Ghadaffi may be a nutter but he never had the sheer fire power of the US military at his disposal...or if you want to get really weird about it, Maybe he does?
The Libya story runs deeper than yet another American adventure in the Middle East. Oh no....This time there is a whole lot more skin in the game and potentially a lot more at stake. We have already introduced the scenario of AFRICOM's intentions to use the conflict to showcase US defense contractors' latest wares to African nations that have thus far resisted American military blandishments.
- KBOO