| From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
| Date: | Mon, 26 Oct 2015 11:30:22 -0700 (PDT) |
| Reply: | cpeo-military |
| Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] "Hanford [WA] cleanup north of Richland largely completed" |
Hanford cleanup north of Richland largely completed by Annette Cary Tri-City Herald (WA) October 24, 2015 Critics who say no progress is being made on environmental cleanup at the Hanford nuclear reservation likely have not been to the 300 Area. It was a major industrial complex for the site, making the uranium fuel that would be sent to the 100 Area reactors for irradiation and then to the 200 Area processing plants for the plutonium to be separated out. It also was used for research, with much of the work conducted elsewhere at Hanford tested first in the 300 Area. Sixteen years after cleanup work began there is only a handful of building still standing. Located along Stevens Drive just north of Richland, it’s the most publicly visible sign of progress at the nuclear reservation. … For the entire article, see http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article41364372.html -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center 278-A Hope Street Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545 Fax: 650-961-8918 LSiegel@cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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