![]() Plutonium production reactors for the nuclear arsenal were sloppily operated there for decades, releasing large amounts of radioactive fallout and causing permanent tainting of groundwater which now threatens the Columbia River-cover it up, make it a destination. Tours are being offered at the "B Reactor," on the Hanford Reservation in Washington State which in 2008 was declared a National Historic Landmark. Hoping perhaps to show that the bomb from hell can be transformed from a vengeful, self-destructive, nightmare demon, into a benign, peace-loving, fairy-tale prince, nuclear propagandists and their friends in Congress are establishing nuclear war theme parks - without the taint of mass destruction - at former bomb factories and nuclear weapons launch pads all across the country. ![]() There is radioactive blowback in the fact that the thousands of tons of plutonium created since 1945 is so dangerously hot and long-lived that, like the underworld itself, nobody knows how to handle it at all - except maybe to trivialize it. Photos of what the Manhattan Project's plutonium bomb did to human beings at Nagasaki prove the point. It was created inside faulty reactors, concentrated, and machined by US scientists into the most devastating and horrifying of all weapons. Plutonium was named after Pluto, "god of the underworld," Hades, or hell. ![]()
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