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PUREX Storage Tunnels Permit Modification Public Hearing Reminder
The Washington
State Department of Ecology (Ecology) is currently holding a 45-day public
comment period starting August 13 through September 27, 2018. This
comment period will address proposed modifications to the Dangerous Waste Portion
for the Treatment, Storage, and Disposal of Dangerous Waste for the Plutonium Uranium Extraction (PUREX) Plant Storage
Tunnels. The Permittee(s) are U.S. Department of Energy Richland
Operations and CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Company. The PUREX facility is
located on the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington.
Attending the Public Hearing
On August 27
at 5:30 p.m., Ecology is holding it first public hearing on the PUREX
storage tunnels at the Richland Public Library. This hearing will
give members of the public an opportunity to voice their comments and
concerns. We will also have a WebEx connection available for people to
call in or connect by computer.
To connect
through the WebEx meeting please use the information below.
Join WebEx meeting (click link)
Join by phone
+1-240-454-0887 US Toll
+1-240-454-0887 US Toll
Host room ID
number (access code): 801 491 108
Meeting
password: Ecology2018
Problems? Contact
support.
There will be a second hearing on September 5 at 6:30 p.m.
at the University of Washington - Center for Urban Horticulture, NHS Hall, 3501
NE 41st St., Seattle. This hearing will give members of the
public an opportunity to voice their comments and concerns but will not include
a WebEx connection.
How to Comment
Ecology invites you to
review and comment on this proposed PUREX Storage Tunnels Permit
Modification. Copies of the proposed modification are located in the Administrative Record and Information
Repositories. In addition, the proposed modification is online at
https://www.ecology.wa.gov/Waste-Toxics/Nuclear-waste/Public-comment-periods.
Please
submit comments by September 27, 2018. Electronic submission
(preferred):
Mail
or hand-deliver to:
Daina
McFadden
3100
Port of Benton Blvd
Richland
WA 99354
Fax 509-372-7971
For more information contact:
Daina McFadden
Hanford@ecy.wa.gov
509-372-7950
Hanford@ecy.wa.gov
509-372-7950
For
more information, contact:
Stephanie
Schleif
(509)372-7950
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"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"
from the Song "Freewill" by Rush
By pretending that "final cleanup" can still happen if this tunnel is grouted, you are very disrespectfully destroying our Freewill. In order to make a claim that "it can still be cleaned up even after grouting" there needs to be more than just a statement. There needs to be a cost estimate, and to make it valid, a cost estimate by a remediation contractor than can be held legally valid for an extended period of time, even 10 to 20 years, allowing annual inflation adjustments of course.
This then becomes a "reasonable argument". It may cost $10M now to cleanup and store these vehicles and who knows whatever other barrels of waste were thrown on them as an easy way to get rid of contaminated stuff. Has anyone put a camera in there? Do you really know what the Inventory is?
But after grouting, a future cleanup might cost $800M. That then would be an irresponsible way to spend OUR tax dollars. It is irresponsible to make this type of decision based solely on assertions. I would say this case is so clear and so obvious that anyone participating or allowing a decision to grout, without a full financial analysis should be prosecuted under waste fraud and abuse laws.
The excuse that "a final cleanup plan" is not in place, is a weak excuse. The final cleanup plan needs to be set now under both scenarios, and then solid costing and financial analysis needs to be done.
------------------------------------------- Full Lyrics by Rush
There are those who think that life
Has nothing left to chance
A host of holy horrors
To direct our aimless dance
A planet of playthings
We dance on the strings
Of powers we cannot perceive
The stars aren't aligned
Or the gods are malign
Blame is better to give than receive
You can choose a ready guide
In some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears
And kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose free will
There are those who think that
They've been dealt a losing hand
The cards were stacked against them
They weren't born in Lotus-Land
All preordained
A prisoner in chains
A victim of venomous fate
Kicked in the face
You can't pray for a place
In heaven's unearthly estate
You can choose a ready guide
In some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears
And kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose free will
Each of us
A cell of awareness
Imperfect and incomplete
Genetic blends
With uncertain ends
On a fortune hunt
That's far too fleet
You can choose a ready guide
In some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears
And kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose free will
Songwriters: Geddy Lee / Alex Lifeson / Neil Peart
Free Will lyrics © Ole Media Management Lp
Kick the Hanford can down the road for the kids to pay for. Pay no mind to all of the radioactive particles that have blown and flowed into our foodchain. Grout will save us lol
ReplyDeleteIn Grout we trust!!!!!
DeleteAntinukes will go down in history as the least technically knowledgeable people on the planet. When the last of the hippies die off, they will also fade away as irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteLucey, we missed you! carry on
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