[CPEO-MEF] Savannah River Site (SC) investigation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Officials search SRS for waste
Soil samples showed no contamination

By Josh Gelinas
Augusta Chronicle (GA/SC) October 07, 2006

AIKEN - State environmental officials were dispatched Friday to the 
Savannah River Site to investigate allegations that concrete vaults are 
leaking radioactive waste into the environment.

Inspectors with the Department of Health and Environmental Control 
looked at so-called "saltstone" cells that contain low-level waste mixed 
with grout, said Shelly Sherritt, a DHEC liaison to SRS.

The agency found no irregularities in the storage cells that it 
regulates but did find moisture on the outside of a cell containing 
depleted uranium, which it doesn't have authority over, Ms. Sherritt said.

However, soil samples taken outside that cell show no signs of 
contamination, said Jim Giusti, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of 
Energy, which owns SRS.

The depleted uranium in the vault came from the Navy in 55-gallon drums 
and was covered in noncontaminated grout, Mr. Giusti said.


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For the entire article, see
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/100706/met_99575.shtml

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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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