The US buried millions of gallons of wartime nuclear waste - Doge cuts could wreck the cleanup

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4. I'm very familiar with the science of Hanford and have written about it here.

The claim is bullshit and nonsensical.

It would be interesting if people were as interested in say, extreme global heating and the release of neurotoxic heavy metals like lead and mercury as they are in worrying about a few atoms of plutonium.

Hanford is proving to be an Oklo redux, which is good news.

Money squandered to clean it up will save very few lives since few lives are at risk. We could save far more lives by spending the money on serious health risks, for just one example, endemic PFAS contamination, among a million other things.

If the world needs anything right now, it would be more, not less, plutonium. Plutonium mysticism is part of the reason the planet is bursting into flames.