U.S. government proposes 17-year delay in start of Hanford nuclear cleanup -- until 2039
Thursday, November 19, 2015 - 05:12
in Earth & Climate
The Energy Department has proposed a 17-year delay in building a complex waste treatment plant at its radioactively contaminated Hanford site in Washington state, pushing back the full start-up for processing nuclear bomb waste to 2039. The department submitted the 29-page plan in federal court...