Guests on a bus tour of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation view the decommissioned plutonium-producing B reactor, April 3, 2008, near Richland, Wash. The federal government is moving forward with the cost-saving "cocooning" of eight plutonium production reactors at Hanford that will place them in a state of long-term storage for decades to allow radiation inside to dissipate until they can be dismantled and buried. |