[ RadSafe ] Workers claim they suffered radiation poisoning during Texas cleanup

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Workers claim they suffered radiation poisoning during Texas cleanup
IAEA says nuclear energy looks to bounce back
Goshute tribe members sue feds over Utah nuclear waste dump
Environmental group wants regulators to reconsider MOX decision
Japan Nuclear Cycle to begin paying residents for radioactive soil
Contractor For Hanford Nuclear Waste Cleanup Fined
Cannon supports nuclear testing in Nevada
Utah carries anti-nuclear waste appeal to White House
GAO begins review of Rocky Flats Cleanup
NRC to meet Duke on new nuclear reactor license
Stolen vehicle stopped by police contained radioactive material
INL plans for more waste removal
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Workers claim they suffered radiation poisoning during Texas cleanup

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - A group of nuclear-industry workers who helped 
clean up a contaminated industrial site in Texas in 2002 claim in a 
federal lawsuit they suffered serious radiation poisoning because 
their Louisiana-based employer failed to provide adequate safeguards.

Eighteen people employed by subcontractors allege that Shaw Group 
Inc., based in Baton Rouge, La., created such unsafe working 
conditions at the former Gulf Nuclear site in suburban Houston that 
many workers ended up walking off the job.

Shaw Group failed to provide adequate protection to workers and 
allowed them to suffer "excessive external and internal radiation 
exposure," according to the lawsuit filed last week at the federal 
court in Rochester.

One worker, Dominic Cotroneo of Rochester, suffered health problems 
that may be linked to acute radiation exposure, including hair loss, 
attorney Linda Shaw said in Thursday's Rochester Democrat and 
Chronicle.

"They were put in constant danger every day," Shaw said. "Some of 
them have been, we believe, significantly overexposed."

The workers, six of whom reside in New York state, accuse Shaw Group 
of violating federal regulations and industry standards and ignoring 
their complaints about safety. The Shaw Group declined to comment on 
the lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages.

The industrial site in the Houston suburb of Webster, where 
radioactive sensors used in the oil industry were once made, was 
filled with radioactive cesium and americium - radiological material 
that federal authorities feared could potentially be used to make 
"dirty bombs."

The building was cleaned up and razed and the hazardous material was 
shipped to secure disposal sites.
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IAEA says nuclear energy looks to bounce back

PARIS, March 10 (Reuters) - Interest is growing in nuclear energy as 
a sustainable solution to soaring oil and gas prices and to fight 
global warming and poverty, the United Nations nuclear watchdog IAEA 
said on Thursday.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said about 64 countries, 
including 34 ministers, will meet in Paris on March 21 and 22 to 
discuss the controversial energy source.

Only about 30 countries operate nuclear reactors as many backed out 
of atomic energy after the world's worst nuclear accident at 
Chernobyl in 1986 in the then-Soviet Ukraine.

"Such a long list of countries is a good sign that there is a re-
evaluation of the facts of each country to reach sustainability," 
Yuri Sokolov, an IAEA deputy director general told reporters ahead of 
the conference in Paris.

The IAEA said nuclear energy was critical to meeting the world's 
growing energy needs and in reducing greenhouse gases.

"Nuclear power plants can meet all these objectives. With 50 years of 
experience, nuclear has become more efficient. We hope the conference 
will promote an understanding of the potential of nuclear energy for 
the world's energy demand and for humanity," Sokolov said.

Industrilised nations like Italy, which after Chernobyl shut four 
nuclear plants and abandoned another that was 80 percent built, and 
the United States, which has not built any new reactors since the 
Three Mile Island partial meltdown in 1979, will attend the Paris 
conference.

Developing countries such as Ghana and oil-rich Nigeria will also 
attend, as will Iran, to present its views amid accusations that it 
is pursuing nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian atomic 
energy programme.

"Nuclear energy is for all countries. In principle, there are no 
restrictions on its use," said Sokolov, adding that Iran has the 
right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

Nuclear energy is less susceptible to price shocks and nuclear 
reactors also hardly release any carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas 
scientists say is responsible for climate change.

Sokolov said if fuel costs double, prices of electricity generated 
from oil and gas would go up by 40 to 60 percent, while those from 
nuclear sources will rise by only 2-3 percent.
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Goshute tribe members sue feds over Utah nuclear waste dump

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Several disgruntled members of the Skull Valley 
Band of Goshutes tribe are suing the federal government to block a 
proposed nuclear storage facility on the reservation.

The suit, filed against the Interior Department and the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs, argues federal administrators have erroneously 
negotiated with disputed leaders and failed to take into account the 
concerns of the 124-member tribe.

The site, to be operated by a consortium of utility companies called 
Private Fuel Storage, would hold 44,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel on 
Goshute land about 50 miles southwest of Salt Lake City.

PFS signed a lease with disputed Tribal Chairman Leon Bear in May 
1997 to house spent fuel from nuclear power plants used throughout 
the country to produce electricity.

The Goshutes who filed suit Tuesday want the BIA to stop recognizing 
Bear as the chairman of the tribe's executive committee. The 
plaintiffs, members of the tribe's general council, say they recalled 
Bear in 2001 and replaced the executive committee members with new 
leaders.

The BIA refuses to recognize the authority of the new elected 
committee members. The suit claims the leadership dispute throws the 
entire waste lease into question. After a new election, the 
plaintiffs want to reopen the lease agreement, allowing for new 
negotiations. Bear's attorney Scott York said he had not yet seen the 
federal lawsuit and declined comment.

Abby Bullcreek and the other five individuals named as plaintiffs say 
they have "a strong interest" in blocking Private Fuel Storage from 
gaining federal approval to build a nuclear storage site on their 
reservation.

"A release of radiation from the stored material has the potential of 
causing widespread injury, death, property damage, and permanent harm 
to the environment of their permanent homeland," the lawsuit says.

The consortium's proposal received the approval of a panel of Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission judges two weeks ago, clearing the way for the 
full NRC to grant the federal license.
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Environmental group wants regulators to reconsider MOX decision

ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) - An environmental group wants the Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission to reconsider its approval of plans to test 
fuel made with weapons-grade plutonium at the Catawba Nuclear Station 
in South Carolina.

The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League says the March 3 decision 
allowing Duke Power to test mixed-oxide, or MOX, fuel at the York 
County plant before an NRC licensing board rules on security concerns 
violates agency policy.

"It is illegal to issue a license during the hearing process," said 
Diane Curran, the defense league's attorney.

An NRC panel heard four days of testimony in January concerning 
security issues raised by the Blue Ridge group for how the fuel rods 
containing weapons-grade plutonium would be protected. A ruling is 
expected by the end of the month.

The league says this month's decision to approve the test program did 
not properly consider theft and terrorism risks.

An NRC spokesman said the agency has done nothing illegal.

"There is nothing in the law or regulations that would require the 
agency to wait for those contentions to be resolved," said spokesman 
Dave McIntyre.

McIntyre said Duke is scheduled to refuel Catawba's Reactor 1 this 
spring, and safety concerns about using MOX fuel have been resolved.

Agency staff has reviewed the security plan Duke submitted for 
transporting, protecting and loading the MOX assemblies, he said.

"The NRC staff evaluated enhancements to the Catawba plant to provide 
for the protection of the fuel while on site," McIntyre said. "For 
them to say we haven't even looked at security is ridiculous."

Steve Nesbit, MOX fuel manager at Catawba, said the NRC put Duke's 
application through a rigorous review for safety and security.

The petition Wednesday alleges the approval was illegal because it 
came before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board issued a decision 
on the Blue Ridge group's security contention.

Details of the security concerns are classified, but they address a 
request by Duke to be exempt from certain security regulations 
normally required to protect plutonium fuel from being stolen.

"We think in a post-Sept. 11 era, that is a mistake," said Ed Lyman 
of the Union of Concerned Scientist, who is helping the Blue Ridge 
group. "The threat of nuclear terrorism is on everyone's minds these 
days."

Additional security is required by the NRC when a facility has more 
than 2 kilograms of highly enriched plutonium. Lyman said it would 
not take much more than that to create a crude nuclear bomb.

Each of the four MOX assemblies to be used at Catawba have 20 
kilograms of highly enriched plutonium.

Lyman and Curran said they think the licensing board will rule in 
their favor. Such a decision would not stop the test but would delay 
it until a new security plan was created and implemented.

The organization could sue if the NRC rejects the request, Curran 
said.

The MOX test assemblies are expected to be shipped from France to 
Charleston next month. They would be trucked to York County. The 
assemblies would be stored in an underwater facility at the Catawba 
plant before being loaded into the reactor.

The test would last about three years to determine if weapons-grade 
plutonium can be used safely in commercial power plants.

Catawba will be the first American plant to use MOX fuel and the 
first in the world to use weapons-grade plutonium. Between 30 and 35 
nuclear plants in Europe use MOX fuel, but the plutonium is not 
weapons-grade.

The program is designed to dispose of 34 metric tons of plutonium 
from nuclear warheads by burning it in U.S. nuclear reactors. The 
same will be done in Russia to reduce that country's nuclear 
stockpile.
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Japan Nuclear Cycle to begin paying residents for radioactive soil

TOTTORI, Japan, March 11 (Kyodo) - The Japan Nuclear Cycle 
Development Institute will start paying a fine of 750,000 yen a day 
to local residents in the western Japan town of Yurihama from Friday 
for its failure to meet a deadline to remove uranium-contaminated 
soil left in the town, JNC officials said.

JNC, a state-backed organization developing technologies for nuclear 
fuel cycle, said it is seeking a place to temporarily store the 
tainted soil to end the payment of the fines as early as possible. 
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology 
supervises the JNC.

A court-ordered deadline expired Thursday for JNC to remove 290 cubic 
meters of about 3,000 cubic meters of contaminated soil abandoned in 
the district of Katamo for about 40 years.

Most of the fines will be financed with taxpayers' money because 
about 90 percent of the institute's budget is funded by state 
subsidies.

The residents have asked the institute to pay the fines into a bank 
account under the name of the district, and will pay some of the 
money to prefectural and town governments which have financially 
supported the residents.

The prefectural and town governments have given about 5.35 million 
yen to the residents for legal fees since they filed a lawsuit in 
November 2000 demanding JNC remove the radioactive soil.

The residents will be able to repay the money with a week's worth of 
fines.

In October 2004, the Supreme Court finalized an order issued by the 
Tottori District Court for JNC to remove the contaminated soil.

It would take at least 10 days for JNC to complete the removal after 
it finds a place for the soil. If the removal is delayed for a year, 
the fines would total about 270 million yen.

The residents appear to be puzzled by the unexpected income.

"We demanded the payment of the fines not because we are motivated by 
money but we wanted to achieve an early removal. We will discuss how 
to spend the money," Masumi Enomoto, a 69-year-old resident said.

The abandoned soil came from the site of test uranium drilling 
conducted from 1956 to 1967 by JNC's predecessor, Power Reactor & 
Nuclear Fuel Development Corp. in an area lying on the border of 
Tottori and Okayama prefectures.

In 1988, the soil in question was found abandoned in the town of 
Togo, which has since become part of Yurihama.
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Contractor For Hanford Nuclear Waste Cleanup Fined

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP)--The company overseeing cleanup of highly 
radioactive waste on the Hanford nuclear reservation has been fined 
more than $300,000 for violating worker safety standards, the 
Department of Energy said Thursday.

A preliminary notice of violation against CH2M Hill Hanford Group 
Inc. cites four incidents of worker contamination. Several workers 
were contaminated while removing equipment from a valve pit in June 
2003, and a worker was exposed to radiation while removing equipment 
from a tank in July 2004.

No regulatory radiation limit was exceeded in any incidents, but a 
worker was exposed to about half the annual radiation limit in one 
incident, the DOE said.

"These issues have been identified before and attempts at correction 
have not been effective," John Shaw, assistant secretary for 
environment, safety and health, said in a statement. "It is important 
that senior management get involved to be sure that these problems 
are corrected now."

CH2M Hill (CHH.XX) can seek to have the $316,250 fine reduced, and 
has 30 days to respond.

Company spokeswoman Joy Turner said CH2M Hill has taken corrective 
action.

"CH2M Hill is committed to working safely and protecting our 
workers," Turner said in a statement.

Since 1999, CH2M Hill has been the main contractor for 177 
underground tanks holding about 53 million gallons of radioactive and 
toxic chemical waste.

For 40 years, the Hanford reservation made plutonium for the nation's 
nuclear weapons arsenal. Today, work centers on a $50 billion to $60 
billion cleanup to be finished by 2035.
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Cannon supports nuclear testing in Nevada

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Though Rep. Chris Cannon believes the cancer 
that took his father's life was due in part to radioactive fallout 
from the atomic-bomb testing in Nevada, he is supporting resumption 
of nuclear tests.

"To the degree that we have people blow up our skyscrapers and hiding 
underground we have to have the ability to respond to them," Cannon 
told the Salt Lake Tribune Tuesday in Washington. "I don't ever 
expect we'll end up using a bunker buster, but the other side needs 
to know that we have them."

He said the tests should not be limited to a bunker busting nuclear 
weapon, but also include the existing nuclear stockpile to ensure the 
weapons have not deteriorated.

"What we really want here is deterrence. We want people to get out of 
their holes and into the democratic process and we want to scare them 
out," he said. "We need to give them the fear of destruction and 
hopefully, over time, people will recognize that the democratic 
system works."

Cannon believes nuclear tests can be conducted safely, and said he's 
committed to ensuring protections are in place.

"With nuclear testing you have to be very careful," he said.

Two of his fellow Utah delegation members would agree.

On Wednesday, Rep. Jim Matheson, reintroduced legislation that would 
force environmental reviews before nuclear weapons testing can 
restart at the Nevada Test Site.

Matheson's "Safety for Americans from Nuclear Weapons Testing Act" 
would require an environmental review for health, safety and 
environmental impacts before considering nuclear testing and require 
Congress to authorize resumed tests. The legislation also would 
increase private and governmental radiation level monitoring 
throughout the country and commission a group of universities that 
would study the health effects of radiation exposure.

Matheson also blames radiation from nuclear weapons testing for the 
death of his father, former Gov. Scott Matheson.

His decision to reintroduce the legislation was not a result of 
Cannon's comments, Matheson said. He had long planned to reintroduce 
the measure this session, but recent comments by Energy Secretary 
Samuel Bodman suggesting he supported shortening the timeframe for 
new nuclear testing concerned him, Matheson said.

"I think it's just incumbent on us to get this legislation moving if 
we can," Matheson said.

Matheson, a Democrat, and Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, proposed similar 
bills last year requiring congressional authorization of any new 
detonations in Nevada, but both measures died.

Bennett also has said he plans on reintroducing his measure, which 
would require the installation of radiation monitoring stations in 
any Utah county that requests one and establish a citizen review 
board to meet with the Department of Energy to discuss testing 
concerns.

In its recently concluded session, the Utah Legislature passed and 
Gov. Jon Huntsman signed a resolution opposing resuming nuclear 
tests.

"A resumption of nuclear testing at the federal government's Nevada 
Test Site would mean a return to the mistakes and miscalculations of 
the past, which have marred many Utahns," the resolution said.

It "would signify a dramatic step backward in the United States of 
America's resolve to learn from its tragic nuclear testing legacy," 
the resolution said.

Residents downwind of the aboveground testing in the 1950s and early 
1960s believe the fallout was responsible for increased cancer cases 
in southeastern Nevada, southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona.

As an attorney in 1979, Cannon worked with former Interior Secretary 
Stewart Udall and others to put together a lawsuit demanding 
compensation from the government for "Downwinders" allegedly sickened 
by exposure to radiation.

The case was lost on the ground of government immunity, but Congress 
later approved compensation payments to the Downwinders. The 
government so far has approved 8,744 claims from residents who have 
blamed their cancers on fallout.
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Utah carries anti-nuclear waste appeal to White House

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Frustrated at failing to win over federal 
regulators, Utah officials took their case against a high-level 
nuclear repository proposed for a Utah Indian reservation to the 
White House on Wednesday.

Sens. Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett and Rep. Rob Bishop, all R-Utah, 
met with White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and Deputy Chief of 
Staff Karl Rove, a former Utah resident and key Bush strategist.

Hatch and Bennett later told reporters that the meeting was good, 
though they declined to say whether administration officials had made 
any specific commitments to stopping the commissioning of a nuclear 
waste dump on the Goshutes' Skull Valley land.

"They know that Yucca Mountain (in Nevada) is the ultimate goal here; 
it's what has to be done under the circumstances and we're going to 
do everything to help them get there," Hatch said. "But we expect 
them to help us to not have to put up with this type of treatment."

Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. will go to Washington next week to meet with 
Bush administration officials about several issues, including the 
state's opposition to the nuclear-waste plan.

The new effort comes after the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 
rejected the state's argument that there was an unacceptable risk 
that a fighter from Hill Air Force Base could crash into the waste 
site and release radioactive material.

The state has asked the board to reconsider its decision. If that 
fails, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will decide whether to 
license the facility - a prospect Hatch finds threatening.

"The Nuclear Regulatory Commission wants to get rid of the problem, 
so if they can dump it on Utah, I think they might very well try," he 
said.

The repository would be on the Goshutes' Skull Valley land 50 miles 
southwest of Salt Lake City. It would be operated by Private Fuel 
Storage, a consortium of eight utilities, as a temporary dump for 
spent nuclear fuel rods before they are stored permanently at the 
proposed Yucca Mountain facility.

Opponents fear that if the temporary site is approved, the Yucca 
plans will be dropped and Utah will end up having the depleted 
nuclear fuel permanently.

Hatch said the Utah contingent in Congress and state lawmakers would 
have to go the extra mile to ensure that the state didn't "suffer the 
indignity of having 4,000 casks of spent fuel rods stored above 
ground" near the Utah testing range.

In 2002, Hatch and Bennett agreed to vote for storing waste at Yucca 
Mountain in exchange for a pledge from then Energy Secretary Spencer 
Abraham and Card that federal funds would not be used to help ship 
nuclear waste to the Goshute facility if it were licensed by the 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

PFS says it never expected to get federal funding.

Bennett said Tuesday that because PFS is a private venture, the Bush 
administration does not have direct influence over the project.

"That is the problem - this is not a government entity, so there is 
nothing the White House can lean on directly," he told The Salt Lake 
Tribune. But "if the White House would send a signal that they 
thought this was somehow a good idea, it would make things extremely 
difficult for us."

Bennett seemed assured after Wednesday's meeting that White House 
insiders were on the same page as state officials.

"They're committed to a strategy of straight to Yucca. And straight 
to Yucca means not stopping in Skull Valley," he said.
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GAO begins review of Rocky Flats Cleanup

DENVER (AP) - The Government Accountability Office has begun a review 
of the cleanup at the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, Sen. 
Wayne Allard said Wednesday.

Environmental activists have been critical of the cleanup, saying it 
did not take into account some contaminants that were dumped 
illegally. The Department of Energy and the cleanup contractor, 
Kaiser Hill Inc., have insisted the work is sound.

In a letter to Allard, R-Colo., GAO Natural Resources and Environment 
Director Gene Aloise said the review would study if the cleanup 
project will be completed on budget by the end of 2006, as scheduled. 
The review, expected by this fall, also will examine if the cleanup 
achieves a level of protection of public health and the environment.

Allard is chairman of the Senate subcommittee that monitors the 
cleanup of former nuclear sites. Saying independent assurance was 
needed, Allard in November asked the GAO to determine whether the 
site will be clean enough to be a turned over to the U.S. Fish and 
Wildlife Service for wildlife refuge as planned.

"I am pleased the GAO came back to us with a straightforward plan and 
has begun its assessment," Allard said.

The $7 billion cleanup is scheduled to end in 2006. The GAO reviewed 
the project in 1999 and again in 2001.

Rocky Flats, about 10 miles west of Denver, manufactured plutonium 
triggers for nuclear weapons until 1992, when it was shut down by a 
combination of safety concerns and the end of the Cold War.
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NRC to meet Duke on new nuclear reactor license

NEW YORK, March 9 (Reuters) - .S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff 
will meet with Duke Energy Corp.'s Duke Power subsidiary on Monday to 
discuss Duke's possible applicatio for a new nuclear power plant, the 
agency said Wednesday.

To date, three other nuclear operators have applied for an early site 
permit -- Virginia-baed Dominion Resources Inc. , New Orleans-based 
Entergy Corp. and Chicago-based Exelon Corp. .

The companies have noted, however, they have not decided whether to 
build a new nucler power reactor.

That depends on such factors as the cost of alternative fuels like 
oil and natural gas, demand for more electricity and federal andstate 
regulations among other things.

The NRC amended its licensing regulations in 1989, creating the 
combined license to provide an alternative to the existing process, 
which was cumbersome.

Whe utilities built the nation's current 104 licensed reactors, the 
applicant had to obtain a construction permit first. Following 
completion of constructio and testing, the applicant then had to 
obtain an operating license before a plant could start up.

A combined license authorizes both construction a for a combined 
construction and operating licensend conditional operation of a 
nuclear power plant.

Duke's subsidiaries own and operate about 30,000 megawatts of 
generating capacity in North Americamarket energy commodities, and 
transmit and distribute electricity to more than 2 million customers 
in North and South Carolina.

One megawatt powersthey have not decided whether to build a new nucle 
about 1,000 homes, according to the North American average.
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Stolen vehicle stopped by Fall River police contained radioactive 
material

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) - Police arrested a man who was driving a 
stolen vehicle that was "hot" in more ways than one - the pickup 
owned by Cardinal Health Nuclear Pharmacy Services contained 
radioactive material.

The pickup was reportedly stolen while it was parked in Seekonk on 
Tuesday. It was later spotted by two police officers about 10 miles 
away in Fall River.

Fall River Sgt. Roger LaFleur said he and the other officer followed 
the truck cautiously because of its reportedly radioactive contents 
and slick road conditions. They took the driver into custody after 
the pickup stopped.

A city hazardous materials team that inspected the truck and its 
fiberglass-capped pickup bed determined the five containers carrying 
suspected radioactive material had not been opened. The truck and 
containers were then returned to a Cardinal Health Nuclear Pharmacy 
Services employee.

LaFleur said he was unsure what material was in the containers, or 
where the truck had been taking the containers when the vehicle was 
stolen.

John B. Germano, the 40-year-old Fall River man stopped by police, 
was charged with receiving a stolen vehicle.
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INL plans for more waste removal

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) - The U.S. Department of Energy has more plans 
for removing radioactive waste buried about 40 years ago in unlined 
pits above the Snake River Plain Aquifer at Idaho's nuclear site.

The department is not required to have a formal plan for waste 
removal at the Idaho Nuclear Laboratory until 2008, but it's 
continuing accelerated cleanup projects on sites including Pit 4 and 
Pit 6 at the Radioactive Waste Management Complex.

So far, crews have removed about 2 percent of the waste at one 
section of Pit 4. Work on that project began in February, said Jeff 
Perry, project manager for DOE. He said the department expects to 
complete the first stage in Pit 4 cleanup in late September.

The department estimates that in the 1960s, more than 21,000 55-
gallon drums of waste from Colorado was dumped in a combined half-
acre section of the two pits. This second phase of the department's 
plan proposes to remove enough waste to fill up to 10,000 drums, said 
Kathleen Trever, the state's oversight administrator at INL.

"This seems to be a practical approach for going after the waste 
we're most concerned about," Trever said.

The department is concerned about volatile, mobile organic compounds 
and transuranic waste, such as plutonium, which is highly radioactive 
and can take thousands of years to decay.

"We're removing the highest concentration of volatile organic 
compounds in these areas," Tim Jackson, a spokesman for department 
said. "The state and the EPA agree with our approach."

The waste will be treated and shipped to the Waste Isolation Pilot 
Plant near Carlsbad, N.M.

The Snake River Alliance, a nuclear watchdog group based in Boise, 
does not necessarily agree with DOE's selective cleaning approach. 
Accelerated projects that leave waste behind don't make sense to the 
group's director, Jeremy Maxand.

"Why are we just cherry-picking the waste out?" Maxand said.

Bechtel BWXT Idaho is the contractor in charge of cleanup work at the 
site until the department announces the new cleanup contract at the 
site March 15.

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