I have lived right next to Hanford all of my life and it has never bothered me in the least. There are some pretty smart scientists working on cleaning this stuff up. My dad works as a biologist monitoring the wildlife on Hanford reservation and while there have been a few "issues" they are tiny considering the amount of toxic garbage that exists. Modern reactors can actually create "good" byproducts isotopes used for treating cancer, etc.
I work for the laboratory and the quote is a little misleading. We actually have closer to 10,000 processors here 2,000 of which run Linux. These are the two supercomputer clusters that we have. Most of our servers and almost all the workstations have Microsoft operating systems. My group has 8 servers and about 100 workstations and only 2 servers and about 3 workstations run Linux.
The supercomputers are simply incredible though!
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I have lived right next to Hanford all of my life and it has never bothered me in the least. There are some pretty smart scientists working on cleaning this stuff up. My dad works as a biologist monitoring the wildlife on Hanford reservation and while there have been a few "issues" they are tiny considering the amount of toxic garbage that exists. Modern reactors can actually create "good" byproducts isotopes used for treating cancer, etc.
I work for the laboratory and the quote is a little misleading. We actually have closer to 10,000 processors here 2,000 of which run Linux. These are the two supercomputer clusters that we have. Most of our servers and almost all the workstations have Microsoft operating systems. My group has 8 servers and about 100 workstations and only 2 servers and about 3 workstations run Linux. The supercomputers are simply incredible though!