>and the Director of Hanfords nuclear clean up
>program just resigned. ON and on...
It is not politically possible to clean up the Hanford Nuclear
Reservation. To do so would force a complete reevaluation of the last 60
years of nuclear policy. I do not know if there is a complete inventory of
the problems there. Contaminated buildings and facilities that leaked
plutonium for 40 years. Waste pools that have to be cooled to reduce the
risk of chemical explosions, and no one knows exactly what is in
them. Leaking waste pools that have contaminated the Columbia River
shoreline. Contaminated soil from accidental and deliberate releases of
Nuclear wastes.
Then there are the issues of the deliberate release of plutonium to see
where the wind would carry it. The unwitting use of the residents of
Eastern Washington and Idaho as test subjects. Hanford is a mess that no
one really wants to deal with.
Then there is always WOOPS. (WPPSS).
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