[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: "Inspector General says Hanford [WA] capsules at risk in earthquake"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Inspector General says Hanford capsules at risk in earthquake

By Annette Cary
Tri-City Herald (WA)
April 2, 2014

Hanford officials should move radioactive cesium and strontium  
capsules to dry storage as soon as possible, in part because of the  
potential risk posed by a severe earthquake, federal inspectors say.

The 1,936 capsules are stored underwater at Hanford's Waste  
Encapsulation and Storage Facility (WESF) in central Hanford, which  
has been operated almost a decade longer than it was designed to last.

It also is the DOE facility that is at greatest risk in the case of a  
natural disaster beyond what it was designed to sustain, according to  
a memo by the Department of Energy's Office of Inspector General.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2014/04/02/2908764/inspector-general- 
says-hanford.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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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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