Tagged: Toxic Waste

Hanford Radiation Leak
6:40 am
Tue October 23, 2012

Radioactive Hanford Waste Tank Has A Confirmed Leak

Credit Photo courtesy of U.S. Department of Energy
Routine periodic visual monitoring (via camera) of the AY-102 annulus found material that was never before seen.

Managers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation have confirmed that a radioactive waste tank has a slow leak. That waste isn’t getting into the environment. Richland Correspondent Anna King reports.

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