[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Hanford Advisory Board [WA] wants to speed cleanup ...

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hanford Advisory Board wants to speed cleanup of highly radioactive  
waste spill

By Annette Cary
Tri-City Herald (WA)
February 10, 2013

The Department of Energy should not delay work to clean up the highly  
radioactive spill from a hot cell in a Hanford building just north of  
Richland, the Hanford Advisory Board said Friday.

DOE and its regulators, the Washington State Department of Ecology  
and the Environmental Protection Agency, have proposed revised  
deadlines to the legally binding Tri-Party Agreement.

They include extending the deadline for tearing down the 324  
Building, where concentrated cesium and strontium spilled into the  
soil beneath it, for three years past the current deadline of  
September 2015.

The deadline had been set before workers discovered the highly  
contaminated soil in 2010. The lining of a sump at the bottom of a  
hot cell in the building had cracked, allowing radioactive material  
to leak into the soil, possibly when a large spill of cesium and  
strontium happened in the hot cell in 1986.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/02/10/2269575/hanford-advisory- 
board-wants-to.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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