Little to no consideration was paid to worker safety or responsible disposal of waste materials, and the reactors were all optimized for plutonium production, producing many tons of contaminated materials and utilizing primitive open-cycle cooling systems which directly contaminated the thousands of gallons of cooling water the reactors used every day.
Malo se pažnje posvećivalo sigurnosti radnika ili odgovornom zbrinjavanju otpada, a svi su reaktori bili optimizirani za proizvodnju plutonija, proizvevši mnogo tona kontaminiranog materijala i koristeći primitivni otvoreni ciklus sustav hlađenja koji je izravno zagađivao svaku od tisuća litara vode koja se koristila za hlađenje u reaktorima.