"Stimulus Workers Confront Legacy of Contamination at Nuclear Sites"

The $2 billion in federal stimulus money was welcomed in southeastern Washington, where the government has been working for decades to clean up the Hanford nuclear complex. But newly hired workers on the project may be facing dangers because of inadequate training and precautions for the threat of deadly beryllium dust.

David Epstein reports a feature-length special for ProPublica May 3, 2010.