"Nuclear waste may be leaking into soil from Hanford site"

After an investigating at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the Washington's state. The US Energy Department said that there have been a detection of a higher radioactivity levels under tank AY-102. The tank had been holding some of the worst radioactive chemical that was used during the World War 2 and the Cold War to build the atomic bomb as a secret project. The Energy Department announced the AY-102 was leaking last year, but there was no waste escaped. Inside the tank carries Cesium-137 and Strontium-90, both take hundreds of years to decay. Exposure to the chemical would risk a person's chance of developing cancer. The government are now concern that if this dangerous waste escapes the tank into the soil, it could travels into the ground water and possibly reaching the river. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee declared that even though this isn't an immediate public health threat, it needed to be treated with seriousness. Engineers were assigned to analyze the contamination through sampling and video inspection, but the process might take several days. Until today, Hanford has been the nation's most contaminated nuclear site that would take decades to cleanup. The cost to cleanup is tremendously high with the price of $2 billion annually. The money are out of taxpayer's pocket every year and up to date it had been $40 billion dollars. The challenging task from the cleanup project so far is to remove the highly radioactive waste from the 177 aging, underground tanks and construction of a plant to treat that waste. I believe that whatever the governments or workers can do to keep the tank from further more leaking needed to be done and be done quickly. The waterways are the human and animal's source of life. The river that is showing to have the most risk is the largest waterway in the Pacific Northwest- the Columbia River. Even though it is about 5 miles away, it's the closest to the Nuclear site. The Columbia River empty into the Pacific Ocean. If the River is contaminated, not only will the Americans are having to face fatal risk, many in the world will be as well.