DOE, state ask court for more time to empty Hanford radioactive waste from leaky tanks

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The Department of Energy would get an extra two and a half years to get the next group of Hanford’s leak-prone, underground tanks emptied of radioactive tanks, under a proposal filed in federal court this week.

In 2016 U.S. Judge Rosanna Malouf Peterson set new deadlines for DOE to empty some of the nuclear reservation’s single-shell tanks as it became clear that deadlines set in a federal court consent decree in 2010 could not be met.

She required that DOE have nine more single-shell tanks emptied by March 31, 2024. Those would be in addition to the 17 of the site’s 149 single-shell tanks that have been emptied to regulatory standards to date.

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Source: Tri-City Herald