[CPEO-MEF] Hanford leak and progress

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Radioactive waste leak found at Hanford


Tri-City Herald (WA)
July 27th, 2007

Hanford workers were being moved out of the 200 West Area of central 
Hanford this afternoon after a leak was discovered in the tank farms.

Radioactive waste being transferred between underground tanks leaked 
onto the ground from an above-ground transfer line, apparently during 
the night. The leak was discovered Friday morning.

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For the entire article,
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/tch/local/breaking/story/9168126p-9084572c.html



For better news, see

Progress made in cleaning Hanford's K West Basin

The Associated Press
Tri-City Herald (WA)
July 27, 2007


RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) - Workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation are 
making big strides in cleaning up the highly radioactive K West Basin, 
filled with wastes from the production of atomic weapons.

Hanford workers have finished vacuuming the bulk of radioactive sludge 
from the floor of the basin into underwater containers, leaving bare 
concrete.

"This is another example of the momentum we continue to sustain in 
cleaning up the site and eliminating risk to the Columbia River," Dave 
Brockman, manager of the Department of Energy's Hanford office, said in 
a statement.

Completion of the sludge removal task allows DOE to meet a revised legal 
deadline and a commitment to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board 
to have the sludge in containers by the end of this month.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/tch/local/state/story/9168081p-9084505c.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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