"There's a high level of difficulty because of the unknowns, " said Gary Snow, a project manager with Washington Closure Hanford, the federal contractor managing the effort to deal with the newfound waste.
As a leading project engineer in 2002, Mark Apicella had been working on a project for the latest Vectra model, when the shock announcement came of the plant closure.
Organisers hope to support schemes like the Storth post office project, which saw residents of the South Lakeland village save their post office from closure by turning it into a community run venture.