Hanford Cleanup Needs Funding
An
editorial in today’s Washington Post by the governor and junior senator of
Washington state implores Congress to grant additional funding
for cleaning up the Hanford site – the nation’s most contaminated federal
nuclear reservation.
A new
nonprofit, Hanford Challenge, recently spun off from GAP and is dedicated
to improving the cleanup at Hanford.
The
editorial outlines the subpar state of nuclear cleanup in this country while
the Bush administration is advocating for an expansion of nuclear power. GAP
teamed up with other groups last year to release a very critical report
on GNEP, or the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership. That program proposes to
expand nuclear energy usage worldwide, and allows for other countries to ship
nuclear waste to America.
-- Dylan Blaylock
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