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Originally Posted by Catfish
So you say they put the reactor hulls there, and buried the fuel rods elsewhere ?
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I never brought up the decommissioned naval reactors. The Third Man did in his usual, breezy "let's go off-topic" manner. I was speaking more to the nine civil and military nuclear reactors that used to be on that site which have since been closed. However, the naval reactors are there. They are placed in a large open pit about seven miles from the Columbia River. I can't speak for where the fuel rods are. Needless, to say that with 60 plus years of heavy-duty nuclear activity behind it, Hanford is the most polluted nuclear site in the US and the clean-up costs have and will continue to be enormous. By design and planning, it was established on a remote tract of land. But it's not as remote as it was when it opened in 1943.