[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, SHIPS: Navy proposes to send Enterprise reactors to Hanford (WA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy looks to Hanford for carrier nuke disposal

BY ANNETTE CARY
TRI-CITY HERALD (WA)
OCTOBER 27, 2011

The defueled reactor compartments of the USS Enterprise, the world's  
first nuclear-powered naval aircraft carrier, could be coming to the  
Hanford nuclear reservation.

The Navy has used a trench in central Hanford since 1986 to dispose  
of reactor compartments and other reactor components from 114 nuclear- 
powered ships. To date, that has included compartments from just  
submarines and cruisers.

But the Navy is proposing also adding compartments from the  
Enterprise's eight reactors to Trench 94 in Hanford's 200 East Area  
about seven miles from the Columbia River.

The Navy has prepared a draft environmental assessment that selects  
Hanford disposal as its preferred alternative and will accept public  
comment on it from Sunday through Nov. 30.
...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/10/27/1881587/navy-looks-to- 
hanford-for-carrier.html

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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