[CPEO-MEF] Hanford (WA) animal carcasses and other wastes

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Workers dig up four-legged nuclear legacy

By Annette Cary
McClatchy News Service/Eugene Register-Guard (OR)
January 15, 2007

RICHLAND, Wash. - Hanford workers have removed 40,000 tons of carcasses, 
manure and other waste from burial trenches at the former experimental 
animal farms at Hanford.

That included a railroad tanker car packed with animal carcasses, then 
buried, said Mark Buckmaster, Washington Closure Hanford remediation 
manager, during a presentation to a Hanford Advisory Board committee 
last week.

Up to 1,000 animals at a time were kept at the animal farm near F 
Reactor along the banks of the Columbia River, Buckmaster said.

They ranged from rodents to cats and dogs to farm animals, including 
cows, sheep, goats and pigs. In addition, the farm had crocodiles, 
although no carcasses were found, Buckmaster said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2007/01/15/a3.nat.hanford.0115.p1.php?section=nation_world

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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