in the introduction of chuck stewart's book about tank SY 101 he says that they spent millions of dollars over a period of several decades and remediated nothing...just moved the waste around...
i always thought that b reactor, t plant and the first atomic bomb, july 16, 1945 in new mexico using hanfords plutonium was the beginning of the nuclear world we know...having daily driven past trench 94, which is the resting place of most of the boats that were the early lives of so many techs, i am convinced that the remaining legacy isn't the boats, the reactors, the nevada test site, ebr1, oak ridge....it's what's in those tanks.
stewart's story ends late at night, alone, in a trailer in the desert watching the last residue of the crust swirl away...the monster was finally dead