One of the Hottest places around...

Hanford Washington, created in 1943 for the Manhattan Project as part to create a nuclear bomb. This site is 586 square miles in size. In its peak 9 nuclear reactors produced plutonium for nuclear bombs. In wasn't until 1989 that product was stopped and the clean up began..

What is known according to the Department of Defense is more than 43 million cubic yards of radioactive waste, 130 million cubic yards of contaminated soil, 475 billion gallons of contaminated water and a 80 square miles of ground water completely unusable. Although the entire site is being cleaned up, priority is to prevent waste from reaching the Columbia River. That river provide drinking and irrigation water to millions..

It's been a good day despite a 21 mile detour due to a grass fire, tons of traffic and winds high enough to make the truck dance..  Sleeping the truck again..