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Treatment Plant for Waste in Nuclear Cleanup Has Design Flaws, Panel Says
2013-04-03 05:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A treatment plant that the Energy Department is counting on to stabilize the radioactive waste at the nation's largest environmental cleanup project, at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State, has design problems that could lead to chemical explosions, inadvertent nuclear reactions and mechanical breakdowns, a federal advisory panel warned on Tuesday. The panel, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, said the waste was also not safe where it was now, in leaking tanks that have...
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