Crosscut magazine, an indie news site out of Seattle, keeps very good track of the ongoing slowmoving disaster at Hanford of Washington state as nuclear waste left over from making bombs for World War 2 creeps toward the Columbia River (and imperiling all the cities down current), the most monstrous radioactive danger in the USA, up there with Chernobyl, Fukushima.
"The financial and technical challenges are clearly intertwined. The 2020 report makes it clear that the DOE’s highest funding priority is to begin the glassification process for low-activity wastes as soon as possible, bypassing the pretreatment facility for now. But if that is the new plan, stakeholders wonder what is the plan for dealing with the more radioactive waste.
“If they have a plan, they are not sharing it with anyone. You start to suspect they don’t have a plan to deal with high-level wastes,” Carpenter said...."
