Tank Cleanup at Defense Sites Will Leave Radioactive Waste

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http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2006/2006-04-06-03.asp


High-level radioactive material will remain in nuclear waste the Department of Energy plans to dispose of at its Savannah River Site in South Carolina, warns a new report from the National Research Council on cleanup of waste in underground tanks at three defense sites. It is not practical to remove all of the waste from the tanks, the committee of authors acknowleged.

Saying that the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) overall plan for cleaning up the radioactive waste in 246 underground tanks at the three sites is "workable," the committee expressed concern about the "large volume of radioactive material" that DOE plans to place in saltstone vaults at Savannah River, and other issues of safety and reliability at all three sites.

Fifty-one of the tanks are located at the Department of Energy (DOE) Savannah River Site in South Carolina. There are 177 tanks situated at the Hanford Site in Washington state, and 11 tanks and seven calcine vaults at the Idaho National Laboratory.

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and it's almost hurricane season. yippie.

the more this stuff gets spread around, the more birth defects. not just for humans but all life.

america is a crime scene