A nuclear production facility in Washington state, called the Hanford site, once forged the plutonium that reshaped the world. Now it’s forging glass; a quiet act of undoing at one of Earth’s most contaminated sites.

Vitrification is being used to move the radioactive material into a “safe” form. Then it is stored in trenches or deep underground.

  • IWW4@lemmy.zip
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    14 days ago

    That was a great read!

    They are mixing the radioactive waste with sand and turning it into glass to make it inert. That is just incredible.