A nuclear waste leak in Washington State just got worse

Radioactive waste has been leaking from a storage tank at Hanford Site — a nuclear waste storage facility in Washington State — since at least 2011. In an effort to fix the problem, the U.S. Department of Energy recently started pumping all of the waste out of the World War II-era AY-102 tank. This may have only exacerbated the problem.

Produced by Zach Wasser

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