Hanford tanks milestone

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Hanford reaches milestone in cleanup of tanks 

Last of liquid waste removed from aging containers


By SHANNON DININNY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
August 24, 2004

RICHLAND -- Workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation yesterday
celebrated the completion of a project to remove millions of gallons of
liquid radioactive waste from old, leak-prone tanks.

State and federal officials called the achievement a major milestone in
the decades-long cleanup of Hanford.

For 40 years, the Hanford reservation made plutonium for the nation's
nuclear weapons. Today, work there centers on a $50 billion to $60
billion cleanup, to be finished by 2035.

Much of the cleanup involves retrieving and treating 53 million gallons
of highly radioactive waste from World War II and Cold War-era plutonium
production. The liquid, sludge and salt cake sit in 177 aging
underground tanks.

Most critical was the liquid waste in 149 tanks that had a single-wall
construction, making them more susceptible to leaks as they aged. The
single-shell tanks, built between the 1940s through the 1960s, were
designed to last about 20 years.

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for the entire article, see
http://p-i.com/cgi-bin/pimail.asp?uid=24455&url=local/187616_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
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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