[CPEO-MEF] PRESERVATION: Hanford's (WA) B Reactor

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Study dismisses Hanford B Reactor for national park

BY ANNETTE CARY, TRI-CITY HERALD (WA)
As printed in Tacoma News-Tribune
December 11, 2009


HANFORD - A draft National Park Service study on preserving Hanford's 
historic B Reactor looks at several options but dismisses the 
possibility of making the reactor directly part of the national park system.

Only Los Alamos, N.M., is being considered to be named a Manhattan 
Project National Historical Park.

However, most of the five options being considered for Hanford would 
offer some possible park service role to provide technical assistance or 
educational programs for B Reactor.

Most of the options for B Reactor would rely heavily on local groups or 
other nonprofit agencies to preserve the reactor as a museum, develop 
and maintain exhibits and coordinate public visits. All options likely 
would require fundraising to keep the reactor open to the public.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/northwest/story/989642.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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