A couple of recent news
stories relating to the decommissioning of HBNPP.
A finding at the Seabrook
nuclear power plant in New Hampshire:
“groundwater has
deteriorated by 22 percent the concrete of an underground tunnel…”
This may have some implications in the decisions to remove
below-grade concrete at the Humboldt Bay Plant.
The Texas
Low Level Nuclear Waste Facility where PG&E is hoping to send some of its B
& C (more radioactive) wastes is
still awaiting approval to receive California wastes.
The
history of low level waste disposal has been a long and troubled story. In 1980, Congress ordered that states enter
into compacts to address their radioactive wastes issues. Existing sites at Maxey Flats, KY, West
Valley, NY, Sheffied, Il, and Beatty, NV were eventually closed amid
environmental and economic problems.
Hanford, WA and Barnwell, SC remain open only for their member
states. California, Arizona, and
Nebraska failed at their attempt to build a site in the Mojave Desert. No other states have abided by the federal
law and built their own disposal sites.
Enter
private industry, and the first ( and still one of the only sites) accepting
wastes from all over the US. The
facility in Clive, UT is where PG&E is sending the bulk of its wastes.
Some
special wastes are going to Idaho, outside of Idaho Falls. As usual, controversy follows.
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