[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: "Hanford [WA] board: Spend money on cleanup, not study"

[Lenny Siegel]

Hanford board: Spend money on cleanup, not study

BY ANNETTE CARY
Tri-City Herald (WA)
February 7, 2016

No more money should be diverted from Hanford environmental cleanup to pay for a $4 million study evaluating risk at the nuclear reservation, according to the Hanford Advisory Board.

The board agreed Thursday at a meeting in Richland that there is insufficient value in continuing the study. Preliminary results, covering about half of the Hanford areas and facilities requiring cleanup, were released Aug. 31 by the Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation. CRESP is an independent, multi-university group providing research and assessment to DOE on cleanup work.

“Regardless of why the CRESP report was commissioned, we are concerned that its findings may be used to help justify doing less cleanup at Hanford,” said the letter sent by the board to Monica Regalbuto, the DOE assistant secretary for environmental management.


Read more here: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article59086418.html#storylink=cpy

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http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article59086418.html

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Lenny Siegel
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