Re: 85 Billion

[High Plains Drifter <magna1@jps.net>]

Mr/Ms Hollway:

Would you like to make a friendly wager on Congress funding the
cleanup/remediation?  The porkbarrel die had been cast many years ago.  Four
hundred thousand possible victems of the deadly radioactivity being held at bay at
Hanford will assure funding.  Unless, they are boughtout?   Congress may have
spent over 5 billion dollars on Hanford already, the economy sure shows it.
Consider this:  If the stuff out there is so dangerous and may contaminate the
entire Columbia river why haven't they evacuate the area.  Evidently the tank farm
could drain out in its entirety to the Columbia, and with the filtering of the
soil (sand and rocks, and what the snakes drink) and the effective flushing of the
river everyday you would not see an appreciable change in the environment.  If
they eventurally breakdown some dams to help the salmon plight then the place will
be under water anyway.  I haven't done the math, but with the water flow down the
Hanford Reach (with presnow melt letdown at the dams above) and the source term
for the site (including the tank farm) - what would be the direct dilution of the
released radioactivity (it could be a relatively small number).  When they were
sending reactor coolant directly to the river evidently the downstream
concentrations were not horrendous.  Just some thoughts.....

High Plains Drifter
magna1@jps.net