RE: Article: Report targets nuclear dump (SRS)

["Rick Orthen" <rorthen@cecinc.com>]

Jim--With all due respect to you and the GA DNR, do you really believe

you could continue to receive grants to perform what is in fact

redundant environmental monitoring?  If you or the State is truly

concerned that an unmonitored threat to human health exists across your

borders, it is incumbent upon you to (1) present an objective and

factual case to the DOE for them to acknowledge, and (2) legislate the

necessary funds to maintain a "confirmatory" EMP should DOE not act to

your liking (or you want to independently safeguard the citizenship).  I

don't recall exactly the role Georgia played in stopping DOE's legacy

practice of disposing tritiated waste water directly to "soil columns"

as a quasi-ALARA measure, but I'm sure that role was influential.  It is

also a good example of how oversight can be a results-oriented pursuit.

However, those heady production days are long gone and the pursuit is

difficult to latch now (but it seems the USGS remains enamored with

thoughts of a plume traveling beneath the Savannah River).



Many organizations other than yours and the USGS are "fighting tooth and

nail" to retain funding for their enterprises.  The successful ones will

recognize early that the rules of the risk-chase have changed (again).



Regarding the saltstone vault/HLW tank grout inventories you quote, what

were the performance assessment results?  Those would add the necessary

perspective.



Rick 

 

Richard F. Orthen, CHMM

Senior Project Manager

Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc.

Four Triangle Lane, Suite 200

Export, PA  15632-9255

724/327-5200, ext. 231

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