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Energy Department plans to ship Hanford nuke waste to New Mexico
2013-03-07 03:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Department of Energy on Wednesday put forward a long-term plan to extract and ship low-level radioactive waste from leaking tanks at Washington state's Hanford Nuclear Reservation to a dump in New Mexico. The announcement came two weeks after Washington Governor Jay Inslee publicly announced that six waste tanks were leaking at the World War Two-era nuclear weapons site, and coincided with a visit by the governor to Hanford. The plan faces several regulatory hurdles and may require New...
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