A whistle-blower who raised safety concerns at the most polluted nuclear weapons production site in the U.S. was fired Tuesday from her job at the Hanford_Nuclear Reservation.
Donna Busche's complaints are part of a string of whistle-blower and other claims related to the design and safety of the waste treatment plant at Hanford, created by the federal government in the 1940s as part of the top-secret project to build the atomic bomb. Today, it is the nation's most contaminated nuclear_site, where cleanup costs about $2 billion each year.