A nuclear production facility in Washington state, called the Hanford site, once forged the plutonium that reshaped the world. Now it’s forging glass; a quiet act of undoing at one of Earth’s most contaminated sites.

Vitrification is being used to move the radioactive material into a “safe” form. Then it is stored in trenches or deep underground.

  • bitcrafter@programming.dev
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    7 days ago

    Wow, I had not realized there were millions of litres of radioactive sludge that needed to be dealt with… but on the other hand, it sounds like they didn’t either due to all of the secrecy.