SPOKANE, Wash – 2,000 gallons of nuclear waste from the Hanford site will be transported through Spokane next year, despite efforts by the City of Spokane to stop it.
The waste is from the Test Bed Initiative. The Department of Energy will ship what it calls “low-activity” liquid waste either to Texas and/or Utah.
Mayor Lisa Brown sent a letter to the Department of Energy, the EPA and Governor Inslee last month, expressing her “strong opposition” to this shipment of liquid waste passing through Spokane.
“The plan poses an unacceptable risk to our city… we cannot afford the risk associated with a train derailment or truck accident,” she wrote.
In a fact sheet provided by the Hanford Site, it says the federal government moves two billion tons of hazardous material every year by highway, rail and water. The shipments follow stringent regulations designed to protect the public and the environment.
To read more about the Test Bed Initiative, see the document below.
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