Saturday, February 14, 2009

Atomic economics

Minor good news for the Evergreen State’s economy: the Seattle Times reports that the state will get a sizeable chunk of the nuclear clean-up funds earmarked in the “economic stimulus package” approved by Congress Wednesday.

The site needing clean-up is the Hanford nuclear reservation in SE Washington, which was established in the early 1940s to produce plutonium as part of the Manhattan Project.

Senator Patty Murray, D, is happy because it “will create literally thousands of jobs at the site”. & local CofC types in Hanford are dancing at the thought of $1.8B flowing into the local economy.

Whoopee.

The reason for the huge chunk of change for Hanford is that it’s one of the worst sites in the country, needing the most clean-up. How prescient of those nuclear contaminators to have built in an economic fail-safe mechanism for the area.

Plus—their kids glow in the dark, lowering local electric bills.

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