[CPEO-MEF] Hanford Site (WA) "distressing"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Hanford site still in distressing state

Opinion by TOM CARPENTER
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (WA)
December 11, 2007

Late last month, the U.S. Department of Energy, along with the EPA and
Washington state, hosted the annual "State of the Site" meeting on
Hanford, in Seattle.

To those of us who are frequent attendees at such events, this one bore
a depressing similarity to many of the past meetings called for a
similar purpose -- to review the state of the Hanford nuclear site's
efforts to clean up the largest and most expensive toxic mess in the
United States.

Hanford opened in 1942 to produce, on an industrial scale, the plutonium
used in the first nuclear explosion in the Nevada desert in 1945 --
followed shortly by the use of the plutonium bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.

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For the entire column, see
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/342997_hanford11.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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