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By Patrick Oppmann, CNN
January 29, 2010 8:02 a.m. EST
Hanford Nuclear Site, Washington (CNN) -- The federal government has set aside nearly $2 billion in stimulus funds to clean up Washington State's decommissioned Hanford nuclear site, once the center of the country's Cold War plutonium production.
That is more stimulus funding than some entire states have received, which has triggered a debate as to whether the money is being properly spent.
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| | | published Friday, January 29, 2010 | 537 Views :: 0 Comments |
By Annette Cary, Herald staff writer
January 27, 2010
http://www.hanfordnews.com/news/2010/story/14707.html
RICHLAND -- Speakers at a public hearing Tuesday night split their comments between calling for the Fast Flux Test Facility to be saved and worries that proposed cleanup plans for Hanford would not protect the environment and human health.
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| | | published Monday, September 14, 2009 | 1116 Views :: 0 Comments |
Monday, Sep. 14, 2009
By Annette Cary, Tri-City Herald staff writer
Making Hanford the nation's storage site for tons of excess mercury
could interfere with environmental cleanup of the site, according to
government agencies.
The states of Washington and Oregon, the Hanford Communities and the
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation each have
submitted written comments to the Department of Energy outlining their
concerns.
"It is unacceptable for the nation's leadership to consider sending
12,000 tons of elemental mercury to Hanford when it will be another 50
years before existing waste is cleaned up," the tribes said in a letter
to DOE.
DOE is looking across the nation for mercury storage sites after the
Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008 prohibited the export of mercury
beginning in 2013 and required the agency to have facilities ready to
manage and store mercury generated in the United States.
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| | | published Tuesday, August 11, 2009 | 2745 Views :: 8 Comments |
August 11, 2009
By ROGER SNODGRASS, Monitor Editor
There are currently several nails in the coffin of a nuclear policy that has
strongly favored commercial reprocessing and recycling of plutonium. Ivan
Oelrich wants to make sure it doesn’t pop open again.
A recurring idea in the political tug-of-war between proponents and
opponents of nuclear energy, nuclear reprocessing is intended to achieving a
plutonium fuel cycle, and thereby provide a plentiful supply of nuclear fuel
and a more easily-stored waste product.
Originally published in the Los Alamos Monitor: http://www.lcni5.com/cgi-bin/c2.cgi?075+article+News+20090808213804075075001
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| | | published Monday, August 10, 2009 | 1530 Views :: 0 Comments |
Japan Times, Monday, Aug. 10, 2009
By DAVID JEFFRIES
Kyodo News
HANFORD, Wash. (Kyodo) For Shirley Olinger, managing the cleanup of the Hanford nuclear site —part of the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state that produced the
plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945 — is personal.
Despite these signs of progress, Tom Carpenter, executive director of
the Hanford Challenge, warns that the bulk of the work has yet to be
done.
"I call this 'stopping the bleeding' because it was damaging the
environment," Carpenter said. "But what can we really say about tank
waste? Ninety percent of the Hanford cleanup is this waste. And I think
they are stuck."
Originally published in the Japan Times: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090810a8.html
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| | | published Tuesday, July 14, 2009 | 1581 Views :: 0 Comments |
By Annette Cary, Herald staff writer
7/14/09
Hanford workers have
collected a first batch of samples of radioactive sludge from Hanford's
K Basins to help design the system that will be used to get the sludge
out of the basins and treat it.
New contractor CH2M Hill Plateau
Remediation Co. wants to know as much as possible about the sludge as
it prepares to treat it, hoping to avoid the sort of false starts and
technical problems that have plagued earlier work with the sludge for
the Department of Energy.
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| | | published Friday, June 26, 2009 | 1786 Views :: 2 Comments |
17 Groups Urge Senate to Change CEDA Bill
06/25/2009
SustainableBusiness.com News
In
a letter to the members of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Committee, 17 major groups--including the Union of Concerned
Scientists, the League of Conservation Voters and Sierra Club--warned
that the proposed Clean Energy Deployment Administration (CEDA) in the
American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009 will not "reduce
greenhouse gas emissions in the most efficient, environmentally sound
manner possible."
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| | | published Thursday, June 25, 2009 | 1311 Views :: 1 Comments |
Oppose Additional F-22s Paid for with Environmental Cleanup Funds
June 23, 2009
Dear Representative:
Please support any amendment to the FY10 defense authorization bill, H.R. 2647, to eliminate funds for advance procurement of 12 F-22 Raptor fighter jets and restore the money for environmental cleanup.
Defense Secretary Gates requested four additional F-22 fighters in the FY09 Supplemental Appropriations Act, completing the fleet at 187 planes and ending production. Money to purchase those final four aircraft has already been appropriated. We oppose the additional twelve aircraft sought by the Committee in the FY10 defense authorization at a cost of $369 million for FY10.
The funds for F-22s were taken from money intended for cleanup of nuclear weapons sites, and we believe this is unwise. More than six decades of U.S. nuclear weapons research, testing, and production activities have left dozens of Department of Energy sites contaminated by radioactive and hazardous waste. The contamination threatens workers, communities, and the environment,
including major water supplies. Cleaning up that contamination should remain a priority for Congress and the administration. Inadequate funding in 2010 can lead to missing legally obligated cleanup milestones, allows contamination to spread, and can result in additional spending to pay fines and penalties. Funding shortfalls in one year also require additional spending in future years.
If you would like your organization to sign onto the letter, email nroth@ananuclear.org with your name, title, organization's name, and state.
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2009 Fact Sheet Nuclear Weapons Environmental Cleanup | |
| | published Monday, February 23, 2009 | 394 Views :: 0 Comments |
Six decades of U.S. nuclear weapons research, testing, and production activities have left dozens of Department of Energy (DOE) sites polluted with massive amounts of radioactive and hazardous wastes. Most DOE sites are now on the Superfund list of the nation’s most environmentally dangerous facilities. Their contamination threatens millions of people living near the sites or along major waste transportation routes. Some of the nation’s most important water resources are endangered.
Download 2009 Fact Sheet: Cleanup5.1 final.pdf
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Heart of America Northwest Citizen Guide to GNEP PEIS | |
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