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Dust up at the Hanford Nuclear Site

Dust up at the Hanford Nuclear Site

My recent visit to the Hanford Site, a decommissioned nuclear production complex near Richland, Wash. ended up being challenging in ways I never expected.

When I first took the assignment from the Washington Post, I presumed that gaining access to would be difficult, but after a few phone calls, I got connected with Geoff Tyree, with U.S. Department of Energy, who was more than helpful in coordinating a visit to the site, where plutonium was once manufactured for use in the first nuclear bomb and in Fat Man, the bomb detonated over Nagasaki, Japan.