Study Slams Nuclear Waste Practices at Hanford

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"Management and disposal of radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington State, marred by problems for more than two decades, is the focus of a harsh new assessment by the Government Accountability Office.

“By just about any definition,” the auditing agency says, “Hanford has not been a well-planned, well-managed or well-executed major capital construction project.”

Hanford opened in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project and operated almost continuously through 1987 as the country’s largest manufacturer of weapons-grade plutonium. Left behind at the 586-square-mile site are 56 million gallons of highly radioactive waste in aged and corroded underground storage tanks."

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/study-slams-nuclear-waste-practices-at-hanford/

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1. Not the first study to find major problems with Hanford.

The Columbia river has been contaminated with radiation for a long time, from contaminated groundwater at Hanford.