Hanford

Registration for limited Hanford cleanup tours starts Tuesday

Tri-City Herald
Visitors on a Hanford tour get a look at the massive Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility used to dispose of low level radioactive waste from environmental cleanup.
Visitors on a Hanford tour get a look at the massive Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility used to dispose of low level radioactive waste from environmental cleanup. Courtesy DOE

Sign-up for 2016 sitewide tours of the Hanford nuclear reservation starts at 9 a.m. April 5.

Just 15 tours are offered this year, so those who want to take them should waste no time in signing up at www.hanford.gov. The bus tours will focus on current environmental cleanup work at the site, where plutonium was produced for the nation’s nuclear weapons program.

Participants must be at least 18 years old and U.S. citizens.

The tours are separate from tours of areas included in the new Manhattan Project National Historical Park at Hanford. Registration for those tours, which cover B Reactor or pre-World War II Hanford, is available by calling 509-376-1647.

This story was originally published April 4, 2016 at 9:37 PM with the headline "Registration for limited Hanford cleanup tours starts Tuesday."

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