[CPEO-MEF] Oak Ridge (TN) Y-12

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Next stage of massive Y-12 cleanup project coming up

By FRANK MUNGER
Knoxville News-Sentinel
June 11, 2006

OAK RIDGE - The U.S. Department of Energy and environmental regulators 
have agreed on the next stage of cleanup at the Y-12 nuclear weapons 
plant - a four-year project that will cost about $45 million, eliminate 
a radioactive scrap yard and excavate polluted soil from dozens of sites 
inside the high-security complex.

The federal government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on 
environmental projects at Y-12 over the past 20 years. The early 
remediation focused on off-site discharges into local creeks and capping 
or cleaning up waste sites that were fouling the groundwater with 
chemicals and radioactive materials.

The primary objective of the next phase - beginning around 2009 - is to 
reduce contamination within the plant to "protect industrial workers 
from exposure to hazardous substances," according to the Record of 
Decision signed in April by officials from the Department of Energy, the 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Tennessee Department of 
Environment and Conservation.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_4765822,00.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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