Nuclear Tourism Hot Spot: Hanford, Washington

We’ve written before about the popularity of the plutonium tour at the Hanford Site. What could be more fun than that? Nuclear tourism by kayak, perhaps? “Pat Welle, owner of Columbia Kayak Adventures, who leads two or three groups each month past the nuclear sites, said her business had more than doubled since she started it in 2004,” writes Hugo Martin in the Los Angeles Times. “A jet boat tour operator plans to add a second boat, and the river plays host to several bass fishing tournaments each year.”

All that at a spot where, Martin writes, the “reactors have leaked so much radioactivity into the air, land and water that the contamination caused by the Three Mile Island nuclear accident seems trivial by comparison.”

Radioactive iodine-131 for everyone?

(via Daily Travel & Deal Blog)

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