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Court: Too soon
to rule on sludge
Decision overturns
tribes' position on
Hanford waste
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YAKIMA (AP) - A federal
appeals court ruled last week
that it was too early to decide
whether the Energy Depart
ment should be allowed to leave
radioactive sludge in under
ground tanks in Washington
state instead of shipping it to a
central repository.
The ruling last Friday over
turns a lower-court ruling in the
lawsuit brought by environmen
tal groups and American Indian
tribes. The lawsuit claimed mix
ing the sludge and combining it
with concrete grout - as the
government plans for Idaho,
South Carolina and Washington
state - could endanger ground
water and rivers.
The Energy Department
maintains that some highly ra
dioactive residue in the waste
tanks is too expensive to extract.
The department has proposed
reclassifying it as less dangerous,
combining it with grout and
leaving it in place.
Although the lawsuit cites all
three states, only Washington
state is affected by the ruling
because Congress approved a
measure this year allowing the
reclassification for South Caro
lina and Idaho.
Friday's ruling overturns a
decision last year by a federal
judge in Idaho who barred the
Energy Department from re
classifying the waste.
Washington and several other
states filed "friend of the court"
briefs to the appellate court, ask
ing it to uphold the Idaho judge's
decision.
The appeals court panel said
it was too soon to determine if
the Energy Department's plans
violated the 1982 Nuclear
Waste Policy Act. Waiting would
not be a greater danger "than
the one already imposed by our
high-level-waste Frankenstein,"
said the three-judge panel of the
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap
peals. Elliott Negin, spokesman for
the Natural Resources Defense
Council, denied that the ruling
was a defeat for the environ
mental group. "All it said is that
the timing is off," he said.
Colleen French, an Energy
Department spokeswoman, said
the agency was reviewing the
ruling and would not comment
As much as 100 million gal
lons of nuclear waste were
stored over the years in 239
tanks in the three states. Some
of it has been removed and pro
cessed for permanent disposal,
but about 85 million gallons re
main to be processed.
Critics contended that leav
ing any waste in those tanks will
threaten the Columbia River at
south-central Washington's
Hanford site, as well as the
Snake River aquifer under the
Idaho National Engineering and
Environmental Laboratory and
the groundwater at the Savan
nah River Site in South Caro
lina. About 53 million gallons of
highly radioactive waste from
World War II and Cold War-era
plutonium production is buried
in Hanford's 177 aging under
ground tanks. An estimated 67
of the tanks have leaked radio
active brew into the soil, con
taminating the aquifer and
threatening the Columbia River.
The Energy Department is
required to remove at least 99
percent of the waste at
Hanford.
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