[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION - Hanford (WA) waste to Idaho for repackaging?

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Hanford waste could go to Idaho

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (WA)
March 16, 2008

RICHLAND -- A revised U.S. Department of Energy plan could send up to 
9,000 containers of radioactive waste from the Hanford Nuclear 
Reservation to Idaho for repackaging.

The Energy Department recently announced it plans to make Idaho National 
Laboratory the nation's primary processing center for transuranic waste 
from nuclear sites that don't have their own processing capabilities.

Hanford's transuranic waste, which includes building, laboratory and 
other debris contaminated with plutonium, was temporarily buried after 
1970 when Congress ordered that the waste be sent to a national repository.


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For the entire article, see
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/355263_hanford17.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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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