Makarantun nukiliya da aka yi watsi da su suna haifar da sabon karuwar yawon shakatawa

HANFORD, Wash - Wani rukuni na cormorants biyu sun tashi daga gabashin gabar kogin Columbia, suna zazzage saman da ke haskaka rana yayin da wasu siriri farare guda biyu suka tsaya a cikin lungunan da ke kusa, suna farautar kananan kifin da ke boye a cikin ciyayi.

Kayak 20, galibi ’yan yawon bude ido daga Pacific Northwest, sun yi tafiya tare, suna barin tsayayyen halin yanzu ya yi mafi yawan ayyukan. Sun wuce barewa alfadari suna kiwo a bakin gaɓa, ƴaƴan ƴan leƙen asiri suna bin rairayin bakin teku masu yashi da ƙwanƙolin dutse suna ta bubbuga fararen ɓangarorin da ke kusa.

Amma babban abin jan hankali ya kasance a bakin tekun yamma: da yawa maras kyau, tsarin masana'antu- launin toka da manyan wuraren hayaki, tarin gine-ginen da suka haifar da shekarun Atomic Age na Amurka.

Barka da zuwa Hanford Reach, inda ɗayan mafi ƙasƙanci na ƙarshe na kogin Columbia ya ci karo da wurin da ya fi gurbatar nukiliyar Amurka.

Tare da wannan fili, mafi yawan wuraren da babu bishiyoyi, gwamnatin Amurka ta gina na'urori tara daga 1943 zuwa 1963, ciki har da B Reactor mai tarihi wanda ya samar da plutonium na farko na makamai na duniya don bam din nukiliya da aka jefa a Nagasaki, Japan, a yakin duniya na biyu.

Masu sarrafa wutar lantarki sun watsar da yawan aikin rediyo a cikin iska, ƙasa da ruwa wanda cutar da hatsarin nukiliyar tsibirin Mile na Mile ya haifar ya zama kamar maras muhimmanci idan aka kwatanta.

Amma duk da haka 'yan kasuwa da daraktocin yawon shakatawa a nan kudancin jihar Washington suna kallon kogin da ma'aikatan da aka rufe a matsayin babban zanen yawon bude ido.

Ka yi tunanin wurin shakatawa na jigo kusa da tashar makamashin nukiliya ta Chernobyl. Duk da ban mamaki kamar yadda zai yi sauti, da alama ra'ayin yana aiki a Hanford.

Shahararrun balaguron kayak misali ɗaya ne. Pat Welle, mai kamfanin Columbia Kayak Adventures, wacce ke jagorantar kungiyoyi biyu ko uku kowane wata ta wuce wuraren nukiliyar, ta ce kasuwancinta ya ninka fiye da ninki biyu tun lokacin da ta fara shi a 2004. Wani ma’aikacin yawon shakatawa na jet yana shirin kara jirgin ruwa na biyu, kuma kogin yana karbar bakuncin gasar kamun kifi da yawa kowace shekara.

"Ina tsammanin abin jan hankali shi ne na musamman hadewar shimfidar wuri - farar bluffs da namun daji - da kuma tarin wuraren nukiliya," in ji Welle.

An dade ana rufe injinan injinan, amma wuraren da ke kewayen sun yi ta ruga da buldoza, manyan motocin juji da ma'aikatan jirgin da ke aiki a kan aikin tsabtace dala biliyan 2 a kowace shekara - irin wannan aikin mafi tsada a duniya, a cewar Ma'aikatar Harkokin Wajen Amurka. Makamashi.

Abin ban mamaki shi ne, duk da cewa injiniyoyin sun gurɓata ɗaruruwan kadada, takunkumin da gwamnati ta kayyade ya bar ƙasashen da ke kewaye da su ba su da damuwa fiye da shekaru 40, yana barin namun daji su bunƙasa.

Ƙoƙarin mai da Hanford Reach wuri mai zafi na yawon buɗe ido ya sami bunƙasa a cikin 2000 lokacin da Shugaba Bill Clinton na lokacin ya ayyana kadada 195,000 a gefen kogin da kewayen tashar nukiliya ta zama abin tarihi na ƙasa. Kimanin mutane 60,000 ne ke ziyara a kowace shekara, ciki har da ’yan kwana-kwana, masu tuƙi, tsuntsayen tsuntsaye da masu son tarihi.

Wataƙila wannan lambar za ta yi girma a ƙarƙashin wani shiri na Hukumar Kula da Daji ta Ƙasa don haɓaka ƙaddamar da jiragen ruwa da wuraren tafiye-tafiye da buɗe B Reactor don balaguron jama'a na yau da kullun. Sakataren harkokin cikin gida Dirk Kempthorne kuma ana sa ran zai amince da shawarar wannan watan don ayyana B Reactor a matsayin abin tarihi na kasa.

Labarin ya fara ne a cikin 1942 lokacin da Sojojin Amurka na Injiniya suka fara neman wurin samar da plutonium don aikin Manhattan na sirri na lokacin. Tare da manyan filaye da samun damar yin amfani da ruwa mai yawa don kwantar da reactor, yankin Hanford kusa da Kogin Columbia ya yi kama da kamala.

An gina babban injin nukiliya na farko na Amurka cikin kusan shekara guda. Yawancin ma'aikata a B Reactor ba su da masaniya game da abin da suke tasowa har sai da aka jefa bam din atomic a Nagasaki. Daga baya, wani kanun labarai a cikin jaridar ƙasar ya sanar: “Salama! Bom din mu ne ya kama shi!”

A cikin shekaru 20 masu zuwa, gwamnatin tarayya ta gina wasu injina guda takwas a gefen kogin Columbia a wani yanki mai fadin murabba'in kilomita 586 da aka sani da wurin Hanford.

A cikin 1948 wani jirgin ruwa a wani tafkin sharar gida ya karye, yana zubar da fam 28 na uranium cikin Kogin Columbia.

A yau, masana kimiyya da masu nazarin halittu suna gwada kusan kowace halitta da ke bakin kogin, ko tadpole ko barewa.

Wata mai magana da yawun Ofishin Kare Radiation na Ma'aikatar Lafiya ta Jihar Washington ta ce gwajin kifin da aka yi daga kogin bai gano matakan da ya wuce ka'idojin kiwon lafiyar jama'a na radiation ba.