[CPEO-MEF] Radioactive debris unearthed at Oak Ridge (TN)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

More radioactive debris unearthed at UPF site


By Frank Munger
Knoxville News Sentinel (TN)
April 12, 2016

OAK RIDGE - Excavation activities at the future site of the Uranium Processing Facility have uncovered another radioactive remnant of earlier operations at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant.

A 4-foot-by-4-foot piece of radioactive metal was unearthed on March 9, according to a quarterly occurrence report filed last week by Consolidated Nuclear Security, the government's managing contractor at Y-12.

There was no immediate information on the metal's former role or why it was buried on the west end of the Oak Ridge plant, where the multibillion-dollar UPF is to be built.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/local/more-radioactive-debris-unearthed-at-upf-site-304ffdde-c246-183e-e053-0100007fb722-375472041.html

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