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So called “clean” nuclear technology might return to Hanford

Among the first decisions that DOE is expected to make is whether to lease land to Energy Northwest that’s near the Hanford 300 Area, which is just north of Richland, for a (?) clean energy park……At some point Energy Northwest might look at energy production through new small nuclear modules,

Future of Hanford land up for debate, Northwest News – The News Tribune By Annette Cary, 09/19/10 HANFORD — At the start of the 1940s, most of the 586 square miles that now make up the Hanford nuclear reservation was crop land and sagebrush range land where 20,000 sheep grazed…...That changed during World War II as the federal government condemned farms, homes and businesses and turned the site into a secret complex to produce plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program……

DOE plans to reduce the active environmental cleanup area of the nuclear reservation to little more than 75 square miles at its center by 2015…..

Among the first decisions that DOE is expected to make is whether to lease land to Energy Northwest that’s near the Hanford 300 Area, which is just north of Richland, for a clean energy park……At some point Energy Northwest might look at energy production through new small nuclear modules,

Future of Hanford land up for debate | Northwest News – The News Tribune

September 20, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, wastes | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear weapons