[CPEO-MEF] Hanford waste initiative

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State looks into how to enforce Hanford initiative 


By SHANNON DININNY
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
November 4, 2004

State officials are reviewing a voter-approved initiative that calls for
limiting the amount of nuclear waste stored at the Hanford site, trying
to determine what will be required to enforce it.

Opponents of the initiative contend its future remains in doubt despite
overwhelming support from voters Tuesday.

The 586-square-mile Hanford Nuclear Reservation was created in World War
II as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project, which produced the
atomic bomb.

It remains the nation's most contaminated nuclear site, with 53 million
gallons of highly radioactive waste stored in underground tanks and
75,000 55-gallon drums of transuranic, radioactive and hazardous waste
buried onsite. Transuranic waste is highly radioactive and can take
thousands of years or more to decay to safe levels.

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For the entire article, see
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/198151_hanford04.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>
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