[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Hanford (WA) commercial wastes

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Commercial Waste Disposal At Hanford Raises Some Eyebrows


By Anna King
Oregon Public Broadcasting
June 10, 2008

Radioactive medical waste, glow-in-the-dark exit signs from airplanes 
and lab waste have to go somewhere when they're no longer needed.

Much of that radioactive garbage is trucked through Washington, Oregon 
and Idaho to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. There, a little-known 
commercial waste landfill is getting some attention from Hanford watchdogs.

Richland correspondent Anna King visited the massive sandy trench where 
the waste is dumped.

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For the entire story, see
http://news.opb.org/article/2295-commercial-waste-disposal-hanford-raises-some-eyebrows/

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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
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