Second whistleblower Donna Busche fired at troubled Wash. State Hanford nuke plant

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2. Nothing to do with commercial nuclear power

The Hanford site and the waste that is stored there is the result of the nuclear weapons program; and not the commercial power program. The weapons waste goes all the way back to World War II. At some point the AEC and its successor agency the Dept. of Energy were going to ultimately dispose of these waste materials. The main problem is that Congress has never seriously allocated the money it would take to properly clean-up. The underground tank farms at the Hanford site were a temporary, stop-gap measure. However, Congress has always voted to continue the stop-gap measure and to put off the ultimate decisions for what to do with this waste that we have had since World War II.

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