[CPEO-MEF] Fernald (OH) critique

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

See the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research's analysis of 
remediation at DOE's flagship cleanup site in Fernald, Ohio:

Shifting Radioactivity Risks: A Case Study of the K-65 Silos and Silo 3 
Remediation and Waste Management at the Fernald Nuclear Weapons Site.

by Annie Makhijani and Arjun Makhijani
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
August, 2006

Excerpt:

"This report provides a case study of the emptying of the K-65 silos of 
their waste, the processing of those wastes for long-term storage or 
disposal, and the long-term radiological consequences of how the 
Department of Energy (DOE) has approached those responsibilities. We 
have chosen to study the significant problems and failures associated 
with the management of these wastes because they illustrate problems in 
remediation and long-term stewardship that hold lessons for other sites. 
The analysis here is not meant in any way to detract from the 
performance of the Department of Energy and its contractors and the many 
stakeholders who assisted them in successfully decommissioning scores of 
contaminated buildings and sites at Fernald over the last 17 years.

"We also looked at some other aspects of long-term stewardship at the 
Fernald site, notably in regard to the commitments that had been made to 
the community and to the State of Ohio for long-term stewardship. 
Specifically, we looked at the fate of an educational program to 
maintain institutional memory of the on-site waste cell and other 
residual contamination that will likely remain in the Fernald 
neighborhood for thousands of years."




To download the 800kB, 88-page report as a PDF file, go to
http://www.ieer.org/reports/fernald/

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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