[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: "State tells Hanford ‘no.’ Stabilizing the radioactive waste tunnel must wait

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State tells Hanford ‘no.' Stabilizing the radioactive waste tunnel must wait

BY ANNETTE CARY
Tri-City Herald (WA)
August 13, 2018 

RICHLAND, WA - Hanford officials will not be allowed to start filling a Hanford tunnel holding radioactive waste with concrete-like grout before a public comment period ends.

The Department of Energy had asked the state to issue temporary authorization to start grouting, out of heightened concern that the tunnel could collapse. 

But permission now would circumvent a legally required comment period. 

DOE wanted the temporary authorization to allow the PUREX plant’s second waste storage tunnel to be grouted, or mostly grouted, before the worst of the coming winter’s weather.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article216594680.html

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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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