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Proud of the Cloud

Rajesh Mirchandani meets the residents of Hanford, site of the largest nuclear waste dump in North America, to hear about their town's link to the Nagasaki nuclear bomb.

Once shrouded in secrecy, Hanford, the site of the largest nuclear waste dump in North America, is becoming a haven for tourists. Two billion dollars are being spent cleaning up the reactors that made the plutonium for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. But local residents are not about to hide their town's past. Rajesh Mirchandani meets the community that is 'proud of the cloud'.

30 minutes

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Sun 16 Aug 200922:30GMT
BBC News Channel BBC News UK

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