The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) prepared a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that evaluates major proposed actions related to three aspects of the Hanford cleanup:
Treatment (immobilization) of 53 million gallons of high-level radioactive waste stored in 177 aging underground tanks, as well as closure of the oldest 149 tanks once the waste has been treated.
Continued disposal of solid waste generated during on-going cleanup activities at Hanford, along with possibly disposing of waste at Hanford from other DOE sites around the nation.
Decommissioning of Hanford’s Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF), a nuclear reactor that operated during the 1980s.
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