Plutonium for nuclear weapons was produced at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation from 1944, when it opened, until 1972 when the last reactor was closed. The Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction...
The NWTRB is an independent agency of the U.S. Federal Government. Its sole purpose is to provide independent scientific and technical oversight of the Department of Energy's program for managing and...
The iodine-131 dose that Hanford area residents received depended on several factors, including age at the time of the release and where they lived. The following map shows the 10-rad dose area for...
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Safe handling and disposal of spent nuclear fuel: Yucca Mountain is the site of America's first planned repository for spent nuclear fuel rods and solidified high-level radioactive waste. The...
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