Now that I'm back from abroad, we can get started up again with a daily longread. This one comes from the Seattle Weekly and documents a wide range of problematic things going on at the Hanford nuclear site. Not only is the scope of the work to be done at Hanford extremely daunting, but the contractors hired to perform this work have routinely cut corners and prevented employees from putting quality and safety first. Sadly, the DOE has only made things worse. Now we are looking at a ridiculously-expensive, dangerous, and possibly totally ineffective solution being implemented.
"Hanford's Toxic Avengers" by Joshua Frank
Published in the Seattle Weekly, February 22, 2012
http://www.seattleweekly.com/content/printVersion/1697249/
Eric
