A free event in Vancouver next week will focus on the status of the Hanford cleanup in eastern Washington, part of a series of similar gatherings across the state.
Four advocacy groups — Columbia Riverkeeper, Hanford Challenge, Heart of America Northwest and Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility — organized the event because there are no such government-sponsored meetings planned in 2015. The “State of the Hanford Site” gathering will include presentations and an opportunity for participants to ask questions about the contaminated nuclear site.
The event is 9:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 28, at the Marshall Community Center, 1009 E. McLoughlin Blvd. in Vancouver.
The Hanford Nuclear Reservation is the site of a facility that for decades produced plutonium for the nation’s defense program. Its plutonium was used in the second atomic bomb dropped on Japan during World War II. Hanford sits along the Columbia River outside the Tri-Cities.
