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Layoffs at the Hanford site included safety engineers and scientists, Sen. Patty Murray said. Hundreds of other federal workers in the state lost their jobs too.

Plans to transform Hanford, which was integral to the nation’s nuclear arsenal after World War II, had just begun inching forward when President Trump started his second term.

My Review: The Hanford Nuclear Site in southeastern Washington state, near the Tri-Cities of Richland, Pasco and Kennewick, is the most contaminated place in the Western Hemisphere. Not just in the U.S., but the most contaminated place in North AND South America. There are worse places in the world - but very, very few. (Depending on which list you look at, Hanford is either the third worst or the ninth worst in the world.) Hanford was one of the three so-called “secret cities”, along with Oak Ridge Tennessee and Los Alamos New Mexico, where the nuclear material for atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was developed and produced.

Layoffs at the Hanford site included safety engineers and scientists, Sen. Patty Murray said. Hundreds of other federal workers in the state lost their jobs too.

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