[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: "Los Alamos Cleanup Past Due"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Los Alamos Cleanup Past Due
As last deadline passes in existing cleanup plan, state and feds  
stalled in drafting a new plan


By Elizabeth Miller
Santa Fe Reporter (NM)
December 8, 2015

Had the cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory gone as planned,  
this weekend would have marked the closure of a decade-long effort to  
remediate the effects of a 70-year legacy of making and maintaining  
nuclear bombs. Instead, the deadline stated in the 2005 consent  
order, an agreement between the US Department of Energy and the lab  
on how and when to clean up radioactive and toxic waste stored on  
site, often in unlined pits, trenches and shafts, and the  
contaminated buildings that housed lab operations, for the last major  
project, a cleanup of the largest waste dump site at the lab, came  
and went on Dec. 6. Instead, that milestone is still decades and  
millions of dollars away, and the state and federal government are  
beginning discussions to draft a new plan and schedule for it.



“That we don’t have a schedule and viable plan is something I think  
puts us at a disadvantage as a state when it comes to securing  
funding,” New Mexico Environment Department Secretary Ryan Flynn said  
in a November meeting with the Northern New Mexico Concerned  
Citizens' Advisory Board.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-11292-los-alamos-cleanup- 
past-due.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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