[CPEO-MEF] STEWARDSHIP: "Hanford Advisory Board [WA} wants DOE to slow down on transferring areas to long-term program"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hanford Advisory Board wants DOE to slow down on transferring areas to long-term program

By Annette Cary
Tri-City Herald (WA)
June 8, 2013 


The Hanford Advisory Board is asking the Department of Energy to slow down on transferring parts of Hanford from its environmental cleanup program to its long-term stewardship program.

Late last summer, DOE announced that it had finished cleaning up a reactor area at Hanford for the first time.

An industrial complex with more than 100 buildings that once surrounded F Reactor had been torn down. Contaminated soil and waste sites -- where debris was disposed of in unlined pits and trenches -- had been dug up. What remained of Hanford's former experimental animal farm, including buried carcasses and radioactive manure, had been hauled off.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/06/08/2426966/hanford-advisory-board-wants-doe.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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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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