[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Oak Ridge (TN) cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

End in sight on cleanup of WWII nuclear fuel plant

By DUNCAN MANSFIELD
Associated Press
June 1, 2008

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) - Building the world's first full-scale uranium 
enrichment factory - a 45-acre monster that was the biggest industrial 
structure in the world at the time - took 18 months amid the race for 
the first atomic bomb.

Six decades later, federal authorities think they finally have a handle 
on just how long it will take to clean up and tear down the 
long-shuttered relic of the Manhattan Project: About 15 years.

The K-25 Building anchored the facility that supplied that first bomb 
dropped on Japan, then supported the nation's nuclear arsenal in the 
early years of the Cold War and finally commercial power reactors.

Now, though, the roof is leaking, the walls are buckling and threatening 
substances from mold to mercury are rife.

...

For the entire article, see
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iREfPznAxDk90HVTGYCjL_g7fJcgD911AVU80

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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