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Natural Resources Defense Council warns against closing Hanford’s underground nuclear waste tanks

Hanford watchdog warns against closing underground tanks http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article212957659.html, BY ANNETTE CARY, acary@tricityherald.com, RICHLAND, WA , 14 June 18

A Hanford watchdog group is objecting as the Department of Energy takes the first step toward a plan to fill underground, radioactive waste storage tanks with concrete-like grout and leave them permanently in place. The C Tank Farm, which would be closed first, has not had enough radioactive waste removed to have tanks filled with grout, said Tom Carpenter, executive director of Seattle-based Hanford Challenge.

“This would be a serious setback for the cleanup at Hanford if the DOE is allowed to turn Hanford into the nation’s high-level nuclear waste dump,” Carpenter said. “This will be challenged.”

Geoffrey Fettus, a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said that “the people of the Pacific Northwest deserve better, and we’ll be there with them opposing this unsound and unsafe effort.”

June 15, 2018 - Posted by | USA, wastes

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