Increased rates of cancer, thyroid diseases, infertility, and lymphatic illness have been reported in people living near the Hanford Site, who have become known as "downwinders". A 2003 study of ...

From 1975: More than 4,000 gallons of radioactive waste leaked from a Hanford storage tank – the 19th such leak to occur. The waste “seeped through the bottom or sides of the steel-lined ...