The Hanford Tanks Environmental Impacts and Policy Choices (1996) / Chapter Skim
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Currendy, He mission of He site, under He responsibility of DOE, is management of wash generated by He weapons program and remediation of He environment contaminated by Cat wash. As part of Cat mission, DOE and He Washington State Department of Ecology prepared He Hanford Site Tank Waste Remediation System Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DElS)
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As far as He co~nrnittee is aware, He environments impacts, uncer~undes, costs, and alternatives to these commitments were not specifically analyzed prior to He present DENS. NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT ANALYSIS AFFECTING THE HANFORD SITE DOE implements its NEPA compliance through regulations found In 10 CFR Part 1021 (NEPA hnplemenung Procedures)
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, makes recommendations for fixture land uses for 20 DOE sites, including the Inform Site, and describes plans ~ prepare He Hanford Remedial Action Environmental hupact Statement for He Hanford Comprehensive fund Use Plan. The 1987 FElS references eight over relevant environmental impact statements mat had already been complex, with the earliest dated 1975.
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represents tank waste comprising solid, generally crys~ne particles suspended in a liquid, most of Me solids are alkaline nitrate salts Mat crystallized in Me tar when liquid wastes were concentrated, but some solids similar to sludges are also present; slurry is found only in double-shell tanks at Hanford.
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. As a result of He various plutonium production processes and tank waste processing methods used at He Hanford Site, He land contain a wide variety of minor chemical constituents.
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Some of Me encapsulated radioisotopes were subsequently recovered for beneficial uses and are not part of the TWRS program. The cesium capsules emit intense penetrating gamma radiation and have been used in beneficial applications such as sterilization of medical equipment.
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The standards Cat must be met for Uric closure, Cat is, He process of declaring remediation of the lards to be complete under applicable fevers and state laws, also are not addressed in He DEIS. DESCRIPTION OF ALTERNATIVES The DElS presents and discusses a range of separate altematives for remediahon of He high-level wash land, He miscellaneous underground storage tanks, and tile encapsulated cesium and strontium.
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