Wash. waste cleanup plan revised
The US District Court in Spokane has approved a new schedule that delays the cleanup of radioactive waste from the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site by about 20 years.
The latest changes relate to emptying 177 underground tanks that hold a 53-million-gallon stew of toxic, radioactive waste. Many of the tanks have outlived their design life and have leaked into the aquifer, threatening the neighboring Columbia River, the largest waterway in the Pacific Northwest.
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The highly radioactive waste will eventually be transferred to a treatment plant that will convert it to glasslike logs for safe, long-term storage.
Where?
I hope the waste on nuclear weapons was worth it, Americans.
US concerned about Wash. nuclear cleanup
A federal audit raised concerns Monday about cleanup delays and costs at a Hanford nuclear reservation plant where workers produced more than half the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons arsenal.
The federal government created south-central Washington’s Hanford site in the 1940s as part of the top-secret project to build the atomic bomb, and the site produced plutonium for nuclear weapons through the Cold War. Today, Hanford is the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site, and cleanup is expected to last decades.
The agency’s Office of Inspector General reviewed the contract just through 2013. In a report Monday, it said the project cost had grown from $528 million to $718 million — a 36 percent increase — and the work was behind schedule as of Sept. 30, despite receiving $330 million in federal stimulus money to speed it up.
More WASTED TAX LOOT!
So WHO STOLE IT?
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I think I'm going to be sick, and I'll bet it IS the WATER!
