Hanford rad-waste dumping

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Hanford waste dumping will be scaled back 


By LISA STIFFLER
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
June 24, 2004

The federal government promised yesterday to immediately stop dumping
radioactive garbage into unlined dirt trenches at the Hanford Nuclear
Reservation, and agreed to send much less waste there than originally proposed.

The decision by the U.S. Department of Energy ended more than six years
of planning and debate over how much low-level radioactive and toxic
waste will be imported to the Eastern Washington site.

Watchdog groups and Washington state regulators have criticized plans to
bring thousands of truckloads of waste to Hanford, most of it for
permanent disposal, arguing that it undermines a multibillion-dollar
cleanup and poses new health and environmental risks.

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for the entire article, see
http://p-i.com/cgi-bin/pimail.asp?uid=24455&url=local/179310_hanford24.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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