At least 200,000 gallons of nuclear waste are threatening to contaminate one of the largest rivers in the country.
"This leak is adding to the estimated one million gallons of tank waste already in the soil across the Hanford site," Washington State Department of Ecology director Laura Watson said in"This highlights the critical need for resources to address Hanford’s aging tanks, which will continue to fail and leak over time," she added., more than 67 tanks at the site are suspected to be leaking or have already leaked.
Since the late 1980s, workers have actively been trying to clean up, treat, and dispose of the waste to reduce the threat it poses, a collaborative effort established under the between the Washington State Department of Ecology, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of Energy.of groundwater remain contaminated well above federal standards, according to the Department of Ecology. The site still contains "some of the nation's most complicated nuclear and mixed dangerous waste, which must be cleaned up."
As of right now, "the leak poses no immediate increased risk to workers or the public, but it adds to the ongoing environmental threat at Hanford," Watson toldThe three agencies are now trying to come to an agreement as to what action to take — but time appears to be running out.
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