Department of Energy talked Hanford to death Your article on June 2, 2013, is inaccurate (along with the Web information). The waste storage tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation were not made of stainless steel. They were made of ordinary low-carbon steel. The single shell tanks were not annealed, the double shell tanks were annealed to prevent corrosion.
June 14, 2013 - The Olympian