Has too much plutonium made Hanford’s waste untreatable? Western world’s most expensive construction project having nuclear chain reaction worries
By ENENews
March 23rd, 2012
Title: Technical problems still bedevil Hanford plant
Source: Seattle Times
Author: Craig Welch
Date: March 23, 2012
So many technical issues now plague a $12.2 billion plant that’s supposed to rid the Hanford nuclear reservation of millions of gallons of radioactive waste […]
Engineers admitted they still have not resolved major safety problems with the plant […] 12 years after design of the Western world’s most expensive and complex construction project began. […]
Even though the project is half-built, engineers acknowledged they still haven’t figured out how, once it is operational, they will keep waste stirred up so it doesn’t spark a nuclear chain reaction.
Officials also are still working out ways to avoid hydrogen explosions in miles of piping and prevent radioactive waste from eating its way through metal tanks in a building that will be so polluted that no human could get inside and make repairs during the 40-year life of the plant. […]
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