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The Hanford report (1985)
| Author | T.Connor, L.Shook |
| Date | December 1985 |
| Classification | 3.01.8.43/13 (UNITED STATES - SITES - HANFORD) |
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From the publication:
Part I: American Weapons, Washington State Plutonium: The Ideas That Make Hanford Run IN FEBRUARY 1977, 34 years after the U.S. government came to what is now the federal Hanford Reservation in southeast Washington, Jimmy Carter walked Pennsylvania Avenue, took the oath of office as 39th President, and made what could have been an historic promise. In his first year in office, the new President vowed, his Administration would move toward "our ultimate goal-the elimination of all nuclear weapons from this earth." (1) President Carter's principal effort at nuclear arms control-the negotiation of the SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union-was repudiated by his successor. And yet President Reagan has likewise publicly committed his Administration to working to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the hope that they might someday be banished altogether. (2) Taken together, both Presidents would seem to represent renewed interest in nuclear disarmament, an ideal both superpowers have entertained before the world community at various times since the end of the Second World War. This aspiration has not affected the Hanford nuclear complex in the way one might expect. Instead, Hanford has been chartered for the remainder of this century to produce plutonium for thousands of additional nuclear weapons. At the hub of Hanford's considerable labyrinth of plutonium production and processing facilities is the plutonium uranium extraction factory known as PUREX. The Department of Energy formally announced, on January 22, 1981, (3) that it was "considering" resuming operations at the plant, which is the world's largest nuclear fuel reprocessing facility. This was the first signal that a major redirection of Hanford programs-away from civil atomic energy and toward nuclear weapons-was underway.
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