[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: "Nuke dump radiation leak could have been prevented"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Report: Nuke dump radiation leak could have been prevented

by Susan Montoya Bryan
Associated Press
April 16, 2015

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A radiation leak that forced the indefinite closure of the federal government’s only underground nuclear waste repository could have been prevented, a team of investigators said Thursday.

A combination of poor management, lapses in safety and a lack of proper procedures were outlined in a final report released by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Accident Investigation Board. Officials reviewed the findings Thursday night during a community meeting in Carlsbad.

The investigators spent more than a year looking into the cause of the radiation release at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeastern New Mexico.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/energy-environment/report-nuke-dump-radiation-leak-could-have-been-prevented/2015/04/16/275f8506-e49b-11e4-ae0f-f8c46aa8c3a4_story.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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