[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: "Hanford [WA] contamination spread across public highway"

[Lenny Siegel]

Hanford contamination spread across public highway

BY ANNETTE CARY
Tri-City Herald (WA)
February 21, 2016

The Environmental Protection Agency has called the uncontrolled spread of small amounts of radioactive waste at Hanford “alarming” after a Nov. 17 windstorm.

Surveys six miles north of Richland after the winds subsided found specks of contamination had spread beyond Route 4, the public highway from Richland out to the Wye Barricade secure entrance to Hanford.

The contamination had blown from the 618-10 Burial Ground, which is being cleaned up on the west side of the highway. 

The search also turned up previously undiscovered specks of radioactive waste believed to have been spread by plants or animals outside known contaminated areas.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article61710052.html

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Lenny Siegel
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