Monks will not bring peace walk to Hanford

Buddhist monks from Bainbridge Island will not lead a peace walk out from Richland to the 300 Area gate of the Hanford nuclear reservation to pray for peace this summer.

The monks and other participants in the Pacific Northwest Interfaith Peace Walk have other commitments and will only be walking through coastal cities of Washington and Oregon.

For more than a decade, they also have come across the Cascade Mountains to Hanford, where plutonium was produced for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

This year they will participate in the Hiroshima Day lantern ceremony on Green Lake in Seattle and in actions linked to the Nagasaki bombing anniversary near the Trident nuclear submarine base at Bangor, Wash.

This story was originally published July 29, 2017 at 7:38 PM with the headline "Monks will not bring peace walk to Hanford."