Newstalk 870 KFLD: The Mid Columbia's Newstalk Leader » radioactive waste http://newstalk870.am Tue, 21 May 2013 03:20:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Leaky Hanford Tanks Subject of Special Washington State Senate Committee Hearing Thursday http://newstalk870.am/wa-state-senate-committee-holding-special-hearing-thursday-on-leaky-hanford-tanks/ http://newstalk870.am/wa-state-senate-committee-holding-special-hearing-thursday-on-leaky-hanford-tanks/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:56:06 +0000 John McKay http://newstalk870.am/?p=124568 For years it's been known that a number of the hazardous waste storage tanks at Hanford have been leaking, but awareness has been heightened after the U.S. Dept. of Energy confirmed six tanks are leaking several hundred gallons a year

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]]> http://newstalk870.am/wa-state-senate-committee-holding-special-hearing-thursday-on-leaky-hanford-tanks/feed/ 0 (Photo by Jeff T. Green/Getty Images) Dept. of Energy Finds Hanford Nuclear Waste Is Leaking – What Will Be Done With the Single-Shell Tank? http://newstalk870.am/what-will-be-done-with-leaking-hanford-single-shell-tank-recent-discovery-by-doe/ http://newstalk870.am/what-will-be-done-with-leaking-hanford-single-shell-tank-recent-discovery-by-doe/#comments Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:44:34 +0000 John McKay http://newstalk870.am/?p=122912 Friday, the U.S. Department of Energy released information indicating one of the single-shell tanks at Hanford from 1945 is leaking.

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