Hanford tours hot ticket, sold out for year
Nuclear waste isn't all that's hot at Hanford.
So are tickets to tour the closed nuclear reservation.
In 13 hours and 9 minutes all 2,544 seats for Hanford public tours this year from April through September had been claimed.
Registration for the free tours opened at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday and 500 seats were reserved in the first minute. By 12:31 a.m. 1,000 seats were taken.
The last registration for the tours was accepted at 1:10 p.m.
All registration was done on the internet and Hanford officials know that people from 41 states and 287 U.S. cities visited the tour sign-up page.
If you didn't get a seat on the bus, you're not out of luck for the year. When cancellations are received, openings are reposted without notice at www.hanford.gov.
The tours, which leave from Richland, last more than five hours and give visitors an idea of the size of the 586-square-mile nuclear reservation and the scope of...
