[CPEO-BIF] BWX Technologies, Parks Township, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Future of closed Parks Township plant up to state

By Mary Ann Thomas
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (PA)
June 5, 2015 
 
The owner of the former plutonium plant on Route 66 in Parks Township wants state approval to bring the site up to standards for future commercial development.

The buildings, which were the first large commercial plutonium fuel plant, in the country, have long been demolished and cleared of radioactive contamination.

But the chemical contamination remains.

The owner of the 70-acre site, BWX Technologies, of Lynchburg, Va., submitted a risk assessment study to the state, which is expected to comment on its plan in several weeks, according to John Poister, spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection.

The risk assessment study submitted to the DEP examines what the company has found on the site and what the potential harm is to anyone on the site.

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For the entire article, see
http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yourallekiskivalley/yourallekiskivalleymore/8502256-74/site-plant-bwx#axzz3cChm85i4

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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