If you really want to read some cool things about Hanford, check out the DOE's cleanup page, and the IEER reports about cleaning up the "canyons".

And remember that they built those now-leaking tanks in the 1940's and '50's. There's also some great accident reports about the "accountability" tanks at Sellafield.

http://www.google.com/search?q=ieer+hanford

http://www.hanford.gov

http://www.wiseinternational.org/node/2558