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1F R, 'k 3 FS 077 UO N L`L"!VFLJ LOL-kL WALBRIDGE J. POWELL JUL IS M ENGINEER&GEOLOGIST 12061 232-5295 4314 island crest Way mercer Island,WA 98040VIM DIVISION JULY 15,1986 ON SATURDAY JUNE Z. 1 STARTED MY 60TH YEAR ON EARTH BY READING AN ARTICLE IN THE SEATTLE P-1 WHICH STATED THAT THE LEVELS OF RADIATION AT KIEV, A CITY OF 2.5 MILLION PEOPLE, WERE APPROXIMATELY 15 TO JO TIMES NORMAL,THAT ABORTIONS HAD BEEN (,ECOMMENDED FOR SOME WOMEN CAUGHT IN THE RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT FROM THE CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT. THE ARTICLE WENT ON TO SAY THAT 100,000 PEOPLE EVACUATED FROM THE 19 MILE DANGER ZONE RUN A NIGH RISK OF DEVELOPING LEUKEMIA AND THYROID CANCERf THAT REGIONS OF ITALY HAD ISSUED WARNINGS ABOUT CHERRIES AND PRODUCTS MADE FROM THE MILK OF SHEEP AND GLUTS; AND SWEDEN HAD CANCELLED THE ANNUAL SUMMER REINDEER HUNT. v ^ LET US NOW SUBSTITUTE SPOKANE, SEATTLE, AND PORTLAND AND OTHER SMALLER CITIES FOR THE KIEV AREA, THE COLUMBIA FOR THE PRIPYAT, AND TWO WEEKS IN 1986 FOR 1942 TO THE iD !3 PRESENL THE LANGUAGE FROM RUSSIAN TO U. S. BUREAUGARBLE. WHAT THE RUSSIANS UNFORTUNATELY ACCOMPLISHED IN A SHORT TIME, WE ALREADY HAVE, 0. ACCOMPLISHED. THE HANFORD OPEN AIR THRUSHES HAVE LEAKED SINCE THEY WERE INSTALLED. L) THE N REACTOR HAS SPEWED RADIOACTIVE GARBAGE SINCE IT WAS FIRST ACTIVATED. PURER O >• IS VOMITING RADIOACTIVITY INTO THE AIR RIGHT NOW. RADIOACTIVITY IS SEEPING INTO THE COLUMBIA RIVER AT THIS INSTANT. LET US EXAMINE HOW WE HAVE COME TO INHERIT THIS LIVING HELL. WE ALL KNOW AB gWT THE HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL EFFORT TO PRODUCE AN ATOMIC BOMB WRING WORLD WAR II. WITH THE ADVENT OF PEACE WE HAD THIS STABLE OF BOY WONDERS WHO WOULD BE UNEMPLOYED SO THE DEFENSE DAPARTMENT DECIDED TO PROMOTE NUCLEAR BOMBS, MISSILES AND POWER PLANTS. OF COURSE, TO PRODUCE THE NECESSARY BOMB AATERIAL.FUEL, AND MATERIALS FOR TESTING IN NEVADA,EHIWETOK,BIKINI,ANO JUST OFFSHORE OF SAN DIEGO AN ENORMOUS CADRE OF BUREAUCRATS AND CONTRACTORS WAS DEVELOPED, THEY ARE STILL WITH US BUT THEIR COUNT HAS MULTIPLIED TEN TIMES OVER, AS THE YEARS HAVE PASSED, BOMBS WERE SET OFF ABOVE AND BELOW THE GROUND AND OCEAN, OVER 250,000 CIVILIANS AND SERVICEMEN ARE KNOW TO HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO TO VAST I WALBRIDGE J. POWELL To DOE JULY 15.1986 PAGE 2 1 .. JUL 18 1986 641 QUANTITIES OF RADIOACTIVITY, POWER PLANTS HAVE BEEN BUILT AND HAVE MELTENHM DIYI$ION DOWN AND VENTED (THREE MILE ISLAND LAND THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION, NOW THE DEPT. OF ENERGY STILL MAINTAINS THAT A LITTLE RADIOACTIVITY WILL NOT HURT ANYONE. THAT IS ANALOGOUS TO SAYING THAT A TIGER IS ONLY SLIGHTLY FEROCIOUS OR THAT IT IS EASY TO KEEP. AN ELEPHANT AS A PET IN A SMALL HUT. IN THE FIRST INSTANCE I WOULD ASK WHY DO TIGER KEEPERS HAVE SUCH HOBBY FINGERS AND IN THE SECOND I WOULD ASK WHY THE EIffWNT 's MASTER SLEPT.DUTSIDE. WASTE WAS DUMPED OUTSIDE AT HANFORD BECAUSE THEY WERE JUST TOO LAZY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO WITH IT AND BES ID ES, IT WAS GOVERNMENT LAND AND YOU CAN DO ANYTHING YOU WANT ON GOVERNMENT LAND IN THE INTEREST OF NATIONAL DEFENSE. IN THE 19505 A TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION OCCURRED IN THE URALS OF RUSSIA. SPENT FUEL 3) /^ p HAD REACTED AND CONTAMINATED HUNDREDS OF SQUARE MILES. THAT AREA IS NOT IN USE TODAY ,4 ,3 . H AMR WILL FOREVER BE UNTENABLE. ON THE HANFORD RESERVATION WE HAVE THE SAME SITUATION AND IT COULD GET WORSE. THE FOLLOWING COULD HAPPEN IN THE AREA OF THE Z-TRENCHESf I. LIQUID WASTE HELD IN AR Z-TRENCH COULD LEAK AS IT HAS BEEN FOR FORTY YEARS. P.. THE wAsrE PdKTLATES LYNN AND IS ENTRAPPED AND CONCENTRATED BY COLUMNAR CHROMATOGRAPHY IN WHICH DIFFERENT 3.4.3.8 SUBSTANCES ARE SEPARATED OUT BY THE SOIL AT DIFFERENT DEPTHS DEPENDING ON THEIR MOLECULAR WEIGHTS M PROPERTIES. THE PLUTONIUM 1S ADSORBED I BOUND TO THE SURFACE OF OIL PARTICLES BY MOLECULAR BONDS) INTO A RELATIVELY THIN LAYER OF THE SOIL. A CHAIN REACTION IS SET OFF BY WATER PERCOLATING INTO THE P LU TONIUM RICH SOI L. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE OF THE PLUTONIUM MOULD CAUSE MASS I VE QUANTITIES OF HIGH PRESSURE STEAM TO FORM, THE EXPLOSION WOULD RESEMBLE A MUD VOLCANO AND WOULD PROJECT INTENSay RADIOACTIVE AEROSOLS INTO THE ATMOSPHERE, THE END RESULT WOULD BE CONTAMINATION OF THE WNEATLANDS OF EASTERN WASHINGTON,CITIES CONTAMINATED, THE RIVER AND SUERFACE WATER MADE PERMANENTLY UNUSABLE. THE AREA WOULD BE ECOLOGICALLY DEAD AMU 1 19U Nre"lf WOULD WISH FOR DEATHS RELEASE. - TODAY WE HAVE THE DOE INVOLVED IN: DISPOSAL OFCICILIAN WASTE, DISPOSAL OF MILITARY WASTE INCLUDING 1 7 .000 TONS OF WASTE IN PLACE PLUS.NUCLFAR FUEL FROM SURFACE AS
1 0 HAI 07'7 078 JUL 18 1986 0611 I NALBfl 1aGE J. POwfu TO DOE JUL, 15, 1986 PAGE 31 11M E Vi iI IC, WELL AS SUBSURFACE VESSELS AS WELL AS THEIR REACTOR CASINGS (100 NUCLEAR SUBMARINES IN THE NEXT 20 YEARS ); DEVELOPING A MINIATURE REACTOR FOR THE STAR NABS PUMPING LASER A °cam 1 i DOE-Rl \V^â UL 3 8 p88 JUL PI My 606 The Washington Public Interest Researcll"W' "FN 5635 Uai miry WyNE - Sono. WA SAROS (306)5E6RNN1 ANE OF THESE WAS SCHEOULWFOR LAUNCH ON A SPACE SHUTTLE CLOSELY FOLLOWING CHALLENGER AND ONE SNNLR HAVE BEEN ON BOARD THE TITAN MISSILE THAT EXPLODED. JUST ABOVE ITS PAD Statement on the Inadequacies of the O.S.Dept. of SnergyS Sanford Defends Wastes S.I.S. N N Ln 2.5.5 APRIL 18. 1986); PLOTTING THE SHIPMENT OF WASTE FROM A DEFENSE DEPARTMENT LOAN TO d COMMERCIAL REACTOR IN TAIWAN THROOGH THE PORT OF SEATTLE FOR RECYCLING AT SAVANNAH 3000 MILES AWAY; EXPERIMENTING WITH A WASTE ISOLATION PLANT IN CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO) ATTEMPTING TO DISIGN A SAFE CASK FOR TRANSPORTATION OF DEFENSE AND CIVILIAN WASTE ITNGET DATE IS 19% ALTHOUGH SHIPMENTS FROM ME M ILE ISLAND ARE MRIVING AT WNFgO EVES WEEKI; CFEMTING THE RFEN P.M, FOR P n,,FICH OF 9YID IAp I. AND PIACEmi. CF SEEM FUEL F" THE FAST FU LEST FACILITY (CRUSHES WERE DE oU THE DoE ENVIRONIENTAL ("PACT STATDENT ALY 7, 086); AND INTEmERNDE WIT11k. N]ff.RI G ALE'S EFFECTS. ttI DEVELOP A SYMPOSIUM OF U.S. AND SOVIET Sonco OWiGEU WITH DETERMINING THE SFECI1ML$ OF NNE MAKDON TWECESQU S IN ALLEVIATING TE EFFECTS ED E ENTI SLEE TO RADIO"CFIVITY 'file BIWf/NffOtTIC MITI Krw1 AS THE DOE ( I Gu. IT OF TfPNOVENT U WIVI ON ) IS &M WSYUY C(OIECFINi FALSE DATA TO JJSIIFS T£ EDICT OE HMYORD AS THE IDLE NUCLEAR WASTE FACILITY IN THE Ur - 0, OF TE PRIME CfMIINCUMS IN Au OF TIE DOE'S CuU CcTS Is R(C RgpIfL4 I T STwm Ara TIE ^ .^. OE FOCM,9.L'S WOM ON U.F. PRP.ERS, WE CAN THEREFORE MAKE ASSUMPTIONS As TO IE eNLm MV RE-IMam I MOOD SULEST TNT YEN CCMACT YOUR CJAWSWF..N TrMRROW NO T . N L SEEN TO PF. WT UP PAN ON dMNEU; IU EUEOPE ANU ASIA. THEY SFFM Tt 11111 TNT TIE WCLFME OF [iiOT E AND ASIA ME MODE IN- FOUDNI THAN THAT a THEIR MM F. F. TIEAE IS ONLY ONS WAY THAT WE CAN CETAIN C.Do OF THE IT.E AND THAT IS TUTAXCI FIMMIFES. WIN YOD CA LL IF WRITE (PFEEERULY) YOUR FUNIPTE101 TE LL THEN TAT YIMI TH. THAT TIE ITT. IS art OF WRO- IM TEAT YUI MN YUB FRIENDSKNOW OF A GIMiD AO,ICATE FCA TKIH OFFUE..MST MIGHT VOTE 10 NT D EC FINIS TO IT. AFTER ALL, SHOULD WE TryF"ATF nT RENICRKY WNSF MM1in S1v1.D IT " WE Mi AQUA; P n MSIFAR VVSI6ID RE MWIET flNE AND D F1' IT htlE / / '/ / ip l) T 4—Aa ; f FL VUy I»I rcF ! F'^ L The Department. of Energy: is pieceaealing the public to death. They refuse to discuss all related Sanford radioactive and toxic waste problems in one Environmental Impact Statement and one decision-making process, The issues are interrelated and the cumulative . impacts from all the wastes at Hanford are so 2.3.1.14 tremendous as to .probably make Hanford the world's largest and most complex toxic waste dump. The people of the State deserve better treatment than to have the significance of the issues hid from them and their participation discouraged by- the DOE's insistence on piecemealing the clean up problem in multiple 2 5.5 thousand page. EISea, The DoE evidently hopes that many of the problems at Hanford will fall between the cracks of public concern. Thus, the heart of our concern is that the Defense Waste 918 is totally inadequate in its scope: The public deserve.$-to. know right now that this Environmental Impact Statement processof the DoE's:fe being 35.4 3 J dominated by cost considerations rather thatn the search for the .. beat available technology or achievement of the maximum possible cleanup of contaminated areas. Any private industry which indiscriminately dumped it toxic wastes the way the 'DOE has 2. would .see its officials in jail and would be ordered to achieve L L 1 the maximum possible-cleanup -.regardless of coat. Our testimony fecusSea. oa the incredibly flawed process being used by the Department of Energy - your purpose seems to be not to clean up your wastes but to convince the public that you have done a in Order to continue producing .huge quantities Of wastes at Sanford as the byproduct of weapons production. We. challenge the operative goals of the process undertaken by the DOE in releasing the draft .EIS.' Spokespeople for the DoE have said they wish to use this process to determine what are acceptable to the public TrsdeofẸS ore simply not acceptable to the public when it cornea to clean up and disposal of the vast quantities of toxic and. Iadioactive wastes dumped or stored at Hanford. We can not accept trading off either'. public health or the environment of a vast area of central Washington in exchange for saving the DoE money Ṅo private Industry could . seek to have the public consider coat 'tradeoffs' in the clean up of a toxic waste deep under the Federal Superfund Law (CERCLA).. By what right does the DoE consider itself subject to a. different standard when it comes to 2. '2,2.3 what is undoubtedly this nation's moat complex and 2 . q L . 3 toxic waste dump - Hanford? We demand an explanation as to the weight the DOE is giving to cost savings when deciding on win place stabilization" versus an actual clean up and disposal of the wastes they Have dumped at Hanford. The EIS quotes from the Hanford Defense Waste Management Plan (1975) to state that the decision will be made to go forward
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