My grandfather was a nuclear eng for GE his entire career and was one of the engineers who helped run hanford...
He died of severe esophageal cancer in the late 90's and they were a part of a class action of nukes against GE, which they won through settlement - but GE would not admit that the cancers were caused by them being nukes at places such as Hanford...
GE has a history of all sorts of stuff like that. In addition to dumping PCBs all over, they "donated" contaminated waste oil to counties and towns around their Schenectady and Washington County, NY plants. The counties in turn used the oil to tar rural roads (basically dump oil on the road and cover with gravel).
The result are probable clusters of lung and kidney cancers among residents along the roads.
He died of severe esophageal cancer in the late 90's and they were a part of a class action of nukes against GE, which they won through settlement - but GE would not admit that the cancers were caused by them being nukes at places such as Hanford...