NUCLEAR WASTE CRISIS RADIOACTIVE WASTE WILL BE DEADLY TO HUMANS FOR HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS.(P-I Focus) From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: April 19, 1998| Author: Torvik, Solveig | COPYRIGHT 1998 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Nuclear waste leaking from Hanford's buried tanks recently was discovered in groundwater. It threatens to contaminate the Columbia River. Some of the tanks also are at risk of exploding.

To head off these calamities, the Department of Energy next week will decide whether to gamble on French and British expertise to turn the 54 million gallons of Hanford tank waste into glass. That has never been done to bomb waste as complex as that in Hanford's tanks. Yet there is no ba...

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