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KUOW's environment beat brings you stories on the ongoing cleanup of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, alternative energy, the health of the Puget Sound, coal transportation and more. We're also partnered with several stations across the Northwest to bring you environmental news via EarthFix.

What we know about the escaped radioactive contamination at Hanford

Photo Courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy
The Plutonium Finishing Plant in Richland Washington

Marcie Sillman talks to Anna King, Northwest News Network's Richland correspondent,about the radioactive contamination that was found on six workers and fourteen cars around the Plutonium Finishing Plant in Richland Washington. 

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