LAT reminds us of nuclear dangers

On yesterday's front page, the LAT reported on nuclear waste at the Hanover site in Washington state. The federal government built several nuclear reactors there beginning in 1943, originally to make plutonium for the A-bombs dropped on Japan during World War II. The site is being cleaned up at a cost of $2 billion according to the LAT. Presumably, the piece is intended to remind people of the dangers of nuclear power, since that is in the news currently as a possible partial solution to the energy crisis.