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‘Catastrophic threat’ to startup of massive Hanford nuclear cleanup plant rumored
Rumors were flying Monday that the future of radioactive waste treatment at Hanford’s massive vitrification plant might undergo a major change.The Energy Communities Alliance, relying on reporting by E&E News by Politico, said that Roger Jarrell had been fired Monday from his position of principal deputy assistant secretary of the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management.
That agency oversees environmental cleanup of the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington from Washington, D.C.
DOE is currently required under a federal court consent decree to start showing by Oct. 15 that it can turn some of the 56 million gallons of radioactive waste in underground tanks into a stable, but still radioactive, glass form at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, or vitrification plant. The plant has been under construction for 23 years.
“I think they want to kill (the Waste Treatment Plant) altogether, even though it’s (close to being operational),” EandE News quoted the anonymous source as saying.
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