Template:Did you know nominations/Plutonium Finishing Plant

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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 22:25, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

Plutonium Finishing Plant

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Demolition of the Plutonium Finishing Plant at the Hanford Site

• ... that the Plutonium Finishing Plant (pictured), which processed more than 66 metric tons of plutonium between 1949 and 1989, was demolished between 2016 and 2021? Source: pp. 28-29 and [1]
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5x expanded by Hawkeye7 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 437 past nominations.

Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:47, 27 January 2025 (UTC).

• QPQ done, sources look good, article looks clean of issues, images are all good. I'm having trouble finding the hook expressed in the article. Where can I find it? ~ Pbritti (talk) 21:32, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

• I have tweaked the text. Last sentence of operations: "Between 1949 and 1989, the Plutonium Finishing Plant had produced more than 66 metric tons of plutonium.[24]" First sentence of cleanup and demolition: "Demolition work began in 2016.[52]" Second last sentence: "all demolition and cleanup work was completed in November 2021." Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:54, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

  Are you doing math by assessing the graphs on the cited pages from this document? ~ Pbritti (talk) 22:10, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

  The table on p. 29. I subtracted production for 1947-1949 (946) from the total up to 1989 (67,363) = 66,417. There was six months of production in 1949, so it would have been a bit higher. Routine calculations are permissible. (WP:AVRC) Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:31, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

  Calculations like that definitely are ok, just was making sure that the source lined up. We're good here, nice job! ~ Pbritti (talk) 04:20, 28 January 2025 (UTC)