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Its not fallout, but groundwater contamination from poorly stored and buried, leaking nuclear waste, left over from the Hanford plant that produced much of the fissile material for the Manhattan Project and another decade or two of the early US nuclear weapons industry.
To the best of my knowledge, Eastern WA was never had a test area for actual nuclear explosions producing fallout.