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February 24, 2020

Report: Feds need to do more to prevent failures at Hanford

  • The partial collapse in 2017 of a tunnel containing radioactive waste signaled problems with how the Energy Department dealt with aging infrastructure.
    • By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
    Associated Press

    SPOKANE — The federal government needs to do more to prevent the failure of radioactively contaminated facilities at an aging nuclear weapons production site in Washington state, the Government Accountability Office said this week.

    The partial collapse in 2017 of a tunnel containing radioactive waste from the Cold War on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation signaled problems with how the U.S. Department of Energy dealt with aging infrastructure, the GAO report said.


     
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