2018 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 08:45:20 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] VOCs: "DOE Upgrades Water Treatment System at Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant" (KY)
 
DOE Upgrades Water Treatment System at Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant 

By TAYLOR INMAN 
WKMS Public Radio (KY)
MAY 10, 2018 


The U.S. Department of Energy is enhancing its treatment of contaminated groundwater at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant site. 

The uranium enrichment facility operated for 50 years and was decommissioned in 2013. 
 
The original pump-and-treat system has cleaned approximately four billion gallons of water by pumping it out of the ground and treating it to remove TCE-- an industrial degreaser. The chemical was used to clean parts at the former gaseous diffusion plant.

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For the entire story, see
http://wkms.org/post/doe-upgrades-water-treatment-system-paducah-gaseous-diffusion-plant

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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