What can kill you in 2 minutes, is invisible and hidden just 1000 feet from the Columbia River?
Learn the answers and what you can do at Heart of America Northwest’s special webinars on Tuesday August 22 at noon and 5:15 pm PT. Click HERE to join either Webinar at noon or 5:15 PT.
The webinars will be presented by our 2024 summer Tribal Environmental Law students who have been working with the Yakama Nation and us to research the deadly levels of highly radioactive soil under Hanford’s 324 Building and how USDOE’s intent to delay cleanup may impact health and Treaty rights.
The soil under the building is so incredibly radioactive that two minutes of exposure would be deadly to adults.
We are presenting this webinar on August 22nd because USDOE will be presenting its plan to the Hanford Advisory Board the next day. We don’t expect the USDOE presentation will propose following the legal requirements in the Superfund law (CERCLA) for a full review of alternatives and a public comment period.
324 Building is in foreground of photo 1,000 feet from Columbia River. Join us on August 22 at noon or 5:15 PM to learn how incredibly lethal waste has been hidden under the building.
Photo was taken prior to other buildings being demolished and shows the trenches that the US Department of Energy used to dump untreated liquid waste from the facilities until stopped by a Heart of America NW lawsuit early in Hanford cleanup.