Hanford: Second Nuclear Waste Tunnel At High Risk of Collapse As Trump Aims To Remove Protective NM Perimeter; Trump Budget Fails To Adequately Fund Cleanup
After the PUREX (Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant) tunnel collapsed it was filled with sand and dirt and covered with what looks like plastic tarp “large protective ground-cover” https://livestream.com/accounts/24284076/events/7559266/videos/159091020
Hanford Cleanup Priorities July 7th Comment Deadline: Trump Budget Wouldn’t Fund All Legal Requirements Even Prior to Tunnel Collapse in May. http://www.hanford.gov/pageaction.cfm/calendar?IndEventId=8175 https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2017/07/05/trump-budget-inadequate-for-hanford-nuclear-site-cleanup-nuclear-waste-tunnel-collapsed-second-collapse-imminent-comment-on-cleanup-priorities-july-7th-deadline/
Meanwhile, the Hanford Reach “National Monument” which adds a bit of extra protective barrier from such accidents is on Trump’s chopping block along with 26 others. Comment Deadline is July 10th: https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=DOI-2017-0002-0001
Purex Tunnels Central Location http://www.hanford.gov/files.cfm/PUREX_Tunnels_Posters-2.pdf
Hanford Reach “National Monument” Map https://www.fws.gov/uploadedFiles/Region_1/NWRS/Zone_2/Mid-Columbia_River_Complex/Hanford_Reach_National_Monument/Documents/general-map.pdf
PUREX Tunnels
http://www.hanford.gov/files.cfm/PUREX_Tunnels_Posters-2.pdf
Hanford PUREX Tunnel No. 2 under construction
http://www.hanford.gov/files.cfm/CHPRC-03365_R0_T2.pdf
“The [Hanford,Reach] Monument is also a reminder of our history as a nation. Plutonium reactors stand along the river, remnants of WWII and the Cold War. Plutonium from B Reactor fueled “Fat Man,” the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan…
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