[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Hanford (WA) waste tank

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Leak ruled out in probe of Hanford's underground tank waste

By Annette Cary
Tri-City Herald (WA)
August 15, 2008

A leak has been ruled out as the cause for a drop in the level of liquid 
inside one of Hanford's huge underground waste tanks holding high-level 
radioactive waste.

That's been the good news at the Hanford tank farms this summer, as an 
equipment malfunction has suspended work at the only tank where 
radioactive waste was being retrieved. Waste from 142 older, leak-prone, 
single-shell tanks is being transferred to 28 newer double-shell tanks.

The Department of Energy and its contractor CH2M Hill Hanford Group had 
feared that a leak was responsible for a sudden drop in the liquid level 
earlier this year in a single-shell tank believed to have leaked 
radioactive waste into the soil beneath it in the past.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/277031.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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