Cleanup & Remediation

Wrap Up: No Public Meeting Yet on Proposed PUREX Tunnel Changes

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The Washington state Department of Ecology has postponed, for now, a second public meeting to seek input on management of waste storage tunnels at the PUREX Plant at the Hanford Site in Washington state, after the older of the two tunnels was found to be partially…

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