[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: "New Mexico leak may delay waste shipments from [Savannah River Site, SC]"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New Mexico leak may delay waste shipments from SRS

By Derrek Asberry
Aiken Standard
March 4, 2014

Savannah River Site officials said options for the Site's transuranic  
– or TRU – waste program are being evaluated after the waste's  
anticipated destination underwent a recent radioactive leak.

The Site's TRU waste program includes solid waste consisting of  
clothing, tools, rags, residues, debris and other items contaminated  
with plutonium. In 2001, SRS began shipping over 10,000 cubic meters  
of TRU waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant - or WIPP - in  
Carlsbad, New Mexico.

Operations at the WIPP are currently on hold after 13 workers were  
recently exposed to radiation.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.aikenstandard.com/article/20140304/AIK0101/140309853/new- 
mexico-leak-may-delay-waste-shipments-from-srs

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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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