Great Haste Made Great Waste at Hanford
The Hanford nuclear site, located on
the Columbia River in Washington state, was built as part of the
Manhattan Project to process plutonium for nuclear weapons. Operated
until the end of the Cold War, the decades of weapons production has
left Hanford as the most contaminated nuclear site in the US, with a
long history of cover-ups about the leaking high-level radioactive
waste. In a project that is currently 10-years behind schedule, the DOE
is attempting to build a vitrification plant at Hanford to process and
neutralize the massive amounts of radioactive waste left behind by the
creation of nuclear bombs. Today, nuclear policy expert Robert Alvarez
joins Kevin and Arnie to discuss the ongoing environmental damage to the
Hanford site.
Listen Inhttp://fairewinds.org/podcast/great-haste-made-great-waste-at-hanford
LINKS:
Overview and Summary of NRC Involvement with DOE in the Tank Waste Remediation System-Privatization (TWRS-P) Program, by the NRC, 2001.
Reducing the risks of high-level radioactive wastes at Hanford, by Robert Alvarez, 2005.
Plutonium Wastes from the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex, by Robert Alvarez, 2011.
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