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HANFORD PLUTONIUM LEAK HIDDEN FROM PUBLIC

 

 

Hanford officials hid evidence of plutonium leak from advisory panel

 

A government-chartered advisory panel was told last September that materials spotted outside the inner wall of a tank holding radioactive waste at the Hanford Site were possibly the result of a "carbonate buildup," “cross-contamination” or "rainwater leakage."

 

But internal emails obtained by KING 5, written by the government contractor carrying the multi-billion-dollar contract to manage the tanks, show that tests conducted weeks earlier had already confirmed that the materials found in the safety space of the double-shell tank were highly radioactive.

The leak of a double-shell tank is seen by nuclear policy experts as one of the most significant setbacks at Hanford in the last decade. There are 28 such tanks at the facility, holding millions of gallons of radioactive waste generated by decades of plutonium production.

Hanford is a nuclear and toxic storage facility located in the state of Washington.  It is considered the most contaminated site in the western world.


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Source:  http://www.king5.com/news/investigators/Hanford-officials-hid-leak-evidence-from-advisory-panel-208417861.html

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