Before any nuclear site can close it must contend with its dangerous waste. Hanford has 56 million gallons of radioactive waste held in underground tanks and solid waste buried throughout the site. By the site’s own admission, innumerable spills and solid waste burials were not accurately recorded.

Jul 26, 2019

International Campaign To Abolish Nuclear Weapons

The Hanford Site occupies 586 square miles (1,518 km²)—roughly equivalent to half of the total area of Rhode Island—within Benton County, Washington.^[1][2] This land is closed to the general public. It is a desert environment receiving under 10 inches of annual precipitation, covered mostly by shrub-steppe vegetation. The Columbia River flows along the site for approximately 50 miles (80 km), forming its northern and eastern boundary.^[3] The original site was 670 square miles (1,740 km²) and included buffer areas across the river in Grant and Franklin counties.^[4] Some of this land has been returned to private use and is now covered with orchards, vineyards, and irrigated fields.^[5]

United States Department Of Energy 2021

I’m driving along the freeway listening to the radio. I’m trying to stay positive.

Because life is beautiful.

I’m thinking life is beautiful when this guy comes on, he wrote a book all about the Hanford Nuclear Waste site. He’s not happy with how the government has maintained the site. He says the waste is leaking from the underground tanks and will probably seep into the Columbia river, which is where we get a lot of our drinking water.

Now this site, Hanford, was where they developed the bomb FAT BOY. The bomb we dropped on the Japanese. You create a lot of waste just making a little bomb. They keep making bombs at Hanford until around 1960 when the join is decommissioned. But what do you do with all the waste? You can’t just dump it in the ocean. The shit is radioactive (meaning it’ll fry your brains and make your dick glow), and it remains radioactive for like 250,000 years. This means if the waste degrades to plain dirt today, it had to be produced around 248,000 B.C..

Produced back in cave man days.

Tell me please what kind of sense does it make. You produce killer garbage that kills for a quarter million years. You store millions of gallons of this killer shit in metal tanks underground. Tanks built by some dingleberry outfit in Detroit (where everything they make works great) and right away the tanks leak. Forget about the 250,000 year guarantee you got with the tanks. Because the tanks are leaking right now! And even if you demanded a refund right now you’re out of luck. The Dingleberry outfit went bust during one of the economic crashes we have every 20 years or so.

Not every 200,000 years…every twenty years.

What were they thinking, these people that made the bombs? These people that built the waste sites. These people that engineered the disposal pits. They must’ve been thinking the good old U.S.A. will be thriving in a quarter million years. No big deal. Nothing changes. We’ll be as good as we ever were in 250,000 years. That’s the meaning of life!

You think?