""Six underground storage tanks at the Hanford Nuclear
Reservation along the Columbia River in Washington state were recently found to
be leaking radioactive waste, but there is no immediate risk to human health,
state and federal officials said on Friday." "The 586-square-mile
(1,518-square-km) Hanford Nuclear Reservation was established near the town of
Hanford in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project, the U.S. government program
that developed the first atomic bombs.""