A leak at the country’s largest radioactive waste storage facility still not eliminated 
Photo from open sources PHOTO: AFP Burial ground Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the USA, which recently had a major leak nuclear waste can explode at any time. Accumulated in hydrogen storage risks reacting with oxygen and then do not escape the tragedy, admitted to the Nuclear Safety Council objects in response to a relevant request from Democratic Senator Ron Widen. Thus, residents of Hanford in Washington state serious danger. For the first time that in Hanford the repository has leaked radioactive waste, it became known in mid February. Then the authorities reported that only one was damaged out of 177 tanks, and on average 150-300 gallons per day year (approximately 500-1000 liters) of radioactive substances. After state governor Jay Insley said that in disrepair there are not one, but six underground reservoirs. Although the official and called the news “very disturbing”, he assured that the leak is not poses environmental hazards since radioactive the waste has not yet reached groundwater, and this may take a long time. About the possibility of an explosion at Hanford Nuclear Reservation he said nothing. Hanford State Complex Washington was built during World War II as part of American nuclear project and covers an area of about 1.5 thousand. sq. kilometers. In particular, it was there that plutonium was produced for atomic bomb “Fat Man” dropped on Nagasaki. In subsequent for decades, the complex continued to function until it turned into a repository for storing radioactive waste. Hanford according to CNN, the most radioactively polluted city in Western hemisphere. In the past at the Hanford cemetery already leaks have occurred since the waste storage tanks have long been have fulfilled their service life, which is 20 years. Federal US government allocates $ 2 billion annually to solve the problem Hanford, most of this money goes to construction special waste processing plant. He must earn to 2019 year.
Kirill ROZHKOV
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