“Its in the state of Washington poised atop an active volcanic region of the Ring of Fire.”
LOL. Maybe 50 billion eons ago. Hanford sits on the most stable basalt foundation you could imagine and the most extinct volcanically.
I had heard that Hanford was almost as stable as the salt deposits around Carlsbad, NM where they built the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), but I couldnt pass up the chance to rouse the rabble.
A lot of the superfund cleanup ends up there.