[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, FORMER SITES: "Manhattan Project atomic waste still in Tonawanda" (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Manhattan Project atomic waste still in Tonawanda

by Ed Reilly
WKBW TV-7 News (Buffalo, NY)
January 5, 2015

TONAWANDA, N.Y. - US Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York) is trying  
to get the US Army Corps of Engineers to move a little quicker when  
it comes to compiling options for the cleanup of radioactive wastes  
from the Tonawanda Landfill.

"They were supposed to complete this work by the end of 2104. It is  
now 2015," said Schumer during a morning press conference attended by  
upset residents, as well as, City and Town of Tonawanda Officials.

The nuclear wastes are leftovers from the World War II Manhattan  
Project that developed the world's first atomic bomb. They were  
discovered by a Department of Energy survey of the 55-acre Tonawanda  
Landfill in 1991.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wkbw.com/news/atomic-waste-worries-in-tonawanda

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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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