[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Hanford's (WA) F Reactor

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hanford's F Reactor cleanup nearly complete

By Annette Cary
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald (WA)
December 19, 2008

Washington Closure Hanford and the Department of Energy have met a legal 
deadline to have most of the waste sites near Hanford's F Reactor 
cleaned up, including digging up carcasses of animals used for radiation 
exposure research.

"The 100 F Area is almost finished," said Rod Lobos, an environmental 
engineer with the Environmental Protection Agency, the regulator for the 
work. "We're very happy with the progress."

F Reactor operated from 1945 to 1965 as one of nine Hanford reactors to 
produce plutonium for the nation's nuclear weapons program. Also near F 
Reactor was a laboratory and an animal farm used through the early years 
of the Cold War for research on radiation exposure on plants and animals.

DOE had a Tri-Party Agreement deadline to finish cleaning up 53 waste 
sites, including nine large burial grounds, at F Reactor by the end of 
2008. That included digging up contaminated soil and debris, filling 
holes with clean soil and planting vegetation.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/421112.html

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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
Fax: 650/961-8918
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