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Plutonium Tanks
Photo: Plutonium tank farm in Hanford, Washington
WALLPAPER
A tank farm at Hanford, Washington, built in the 1940s, uses only single-wall tanks to store radioactive sludge from plutonium processing. Many of the tanks have leaked, tainting groundwater.
Photograph by Peter Essick

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