Re: Error Condition Re: Fwd: RE: Nuke Sites May Not Rid Contaminants

["Carmen M. Rodriguez" <carmenr@lanl.gov>]

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>>> >Nuke Sites May Not Rid Contaminants
>>> >
>>> >WASHINGTON (AP) - More than two-thirds of the government sites 
>>> >involved in decades of nuclear bomb production will never be 
>>> >completely cleaned of contamination, according to a study by the 
>>> >National Academy of Sciences. 
>>> >
>>> >``Long-term stewardship will be required for over 100 of the 144 
>>> >waste sites,'' said the report released Monday by a special panel 
>>> >examining government plans to deal with this legacy of the Cold 
>>> >War years. 
>>> >
>>> >And the scientific panel warned that any plan for managing long-
>>> >term isolation of contaminated sites should anticipate problems 
>>> >because the likelihood of the containment ``measures failing ... is 
>>> >relatively high.'' 
>>> >
>>> >The sites are in 27 states and range from the massive Hanford 
>>> >reservation in Washington state, where government reactors made 
>>> >plutonium for the first nuclear bombs, to portions of the nation's 
>>> >federal research labs such as Argonne in Illinois and Sandia in New 
>>> >Mexico. 
>>> >
>>> >The time for remediation of the sites, contaminated with radiation 
>>> >and dangerous chemicals, range from several years to nearly 50 
>>> >years. And for decades after that continued stewardship of many of 
>>> >these sites will be required, the scientists said. 
>>> >
>>> >Furthermore any plan for dealing with these sites must be flexible 
>>> >with continued involvement by the federal government because ``the 
>>> >likelihood that institutional management measure will fail at some 
>>> >point is relatively high,'' said the report. 
>>> >
>>> >The report was requested by the Energy Department as it develops 
>>> >long-term strategies cleaning up materials that in some cases are 
>>> >expected to remain dangerously radioactive for thousands of years. 
>>> >
>>> >``The Academy did a good job at pointing out the many things we 
>>> >have to look at,'' said Gerald Boyd, the department's deputy 
>>> >assistant secretary for science and technology. 
>>> >
>>> >Boyd said the department agrees that many of these sites cannot 
>>> >be abandoned even after the contamination is clearly contained. 
>>> >
>>> >``We can't walk away from these sites. We can't turn our backs to 
>>> >them. That's what they (the Academy) are recommending to us 
>>> >and that's what we're planning to do.'' 
>>> >
>>> >While some areas likely will never be clean enough to be used, 
>>> >other areas - or parts of facilities - are expected to be cleaned 
>>> >sufficiently of contamination for restricted uses, the scientists said. 
>>> >
>>> >The DOE strategy involves two stages: first containment of the 
>>> >contamination and remediation, a process already underway. 
>>> >Secondly, long-term ``stewardship'' of sites where residual 
>>> >contamination will be left for the foreseeable future, perhaps 
>>> >always. 
>>> >
>>> >But such long-term management is full of uncertainties, the report 
>>> >said. 
>>> >
>>> >``At many sites future risk from residual wastes cannot be 
>>> >predicted with any confidence because numerous underlying 
>>> >factors that influence the character, extent and severity of long-
>>> >term risks are not well understood,'' said the report. 
>>> >
>>> >Thomas Leschine of the University of Washington, chairman of the 
>>> >committee that wrote the report, said that as a result the 
>>> >government model for long-term stewardship of these sites must be 
>>> >flexible and anticipate failure. 
>>> >
>>> >``Understanding this and developing a highly reliable organizational 
>>> >model that anticipates failure while taking advantage of new 
>>> >opportunities for further remediation and isolation of contaminants 
>>> >remains a significant challenge for DOE,'' said Leschine. 
>>> >
>>> >Mary English, a researcher at the University of Tennessee-
>>> >Knoxville, and the committee's vice chair, said that any plans for 
>>> >these sites ``will need to be periodically revisited'' because of 
>>> >changing conditions and new technological developments. 
>>> >
>>> >The Energy Department must ``acknowledge gaps'' in its technical 
>>> >capabilities today as they would be used to contain and isolate 
>>> >radioactive wastes hundreds of years into the future, the study said.
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>Carmen M. Rodriguez, Communications and Outreach Team
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Carmen M. Rodriguez, Communications and Outreach Team
Environmental Restoration Project, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Phone at work:  (505) 665-6770             Phone at home:  (505) 662-7044
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