Public agency partnership: Hanford's history artifacts as a communications tool

摘要

The Hanford Site in eastern Washington state currently is engaged in the largest waste cleanup in world history. In order to make informed decisions about remediation options, the public throughout the Pacific Northwest and the nation needs to understand the wastes that are present, their sources of generation, their composition, and their behavior in the environment. The fact that Hanford operations' were conducted in secret for over four decades presents a unique public information challenge to those who currently are responsible for communicating with the public.