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You are here: EM Home > Resources > Publications > Nuclear Age Timeline, September 1993 (Historical) > The 80's > November 1980

November 1980

Single-shell nuclear waste storage tanks at the Hanford Plant in Washington stop receiving waste. The liquid waste is now transferred to newer design double-shell tanks.

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