[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: "Workers who discovered break in Hanford [WA] radioactive waste tunnel praised"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Workers who discovered break in Hanford radioactive waste tunnel praised

BY ANNETTE CARY
Tri-City Herald (WA)
May 13, 2017

Hanford radiological control technicians who questioned some unusual radiation readings are being credited with discovering the breach in a waste storage tunnel at Hanford this week .

“Congratulations to employees who were very astute,” said Doug Shoop, manager of the Department of Energy Richland Operations Office.

He spoke publicly for the first time since the partially collapsed tunnel was discovered on Tuesday, as he and other officials returned to Richland after taking Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., onto the nearby Hanford nuclear reservation for a briefing and look at the tunnel Saturday morning.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article150430337.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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