Nuclear reservation will be refuge WASHINGTON (AP) - The Energy Department announced Friday it wants to preserve as a wildlife refuge 90,000 acres once used as part of the top-secret project to build the atomic bomb. The agency will formally propose designating the land in Washington state to be managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The area was a security buffer for the Hanford nuclear reservation, constructed in 1943 for the Manhattan Project to build the bomb during World War II. Hanford made plutonium for the nation's nuclear arsenal until the 1980s and is now being cleaned up as the most contaminated nuclear site in the nation. But much of the land in the security buffer has been untouched for decades and is considered to be in near pristine condition. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559107525-247>
