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Resources for Hanford Clean-Up

from Heart of America Northwest

Your Hanford  Hanford’s Central Plateau
& Leaking Commercial Radioactive Waste Landfill

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A one hour video presentation with slides featuring State Rep Gerry Pollet, Executive Director of Heart of America Northwest, speaking at the UW Burke Museum Speaker Series (with Holly Barker, Anthropology) October 2014.
Includes the Navy's plan to limit cleanup of Magnuson Park based on maximum public use of 2 hours/day, 5 days/week.

​​Citizens' Guides And presentations

from Heart of America Northwest:

Our award winning citizens' Guides provide the Public with understandable guides to key issues, comment periods and suggested comments:

• What can kill you in 2 minutes, can't be seen and is 1,000 feet from the Columbia River? Hanford's 324 Building Cleanup Delay August 2023. View our Presentation and Suggested Comments to EPA urging a public comment period and review of alternatives. 
• Comments to National Academy of Sciences on Alternatives for Treatment of Hanford's High Level Waste Tanks, delivered June 2023
• Citizens' Guide to commenting on the Hanford Cleanup Budget for FY 2024 (April 2022) - the risks from USDOE's proposed cuts to Hanford Cleanup
• Citizens' Guide to Hanford Tank Waste "Test Bed Initiative"Feb 2, 2022: Opportunity to speed removal of waste from leaking tanks, and the first opportunity to remove waste from Hanford. Read our full comments. 
• High-Level Nuclear Waste Tank B-109 Leaking: watch our webinar (40 minutes) from Sept. 20, 2021 with discussion on how you can help require USDOE to empty the leaking tank
• Heart of America NW's Public Interest Vision for Hanford Cleanup compared to USDOE's Hanford Five Year Plan November 2022 - this serves as an on-going Citizens' Guide for major Hanford Cleanup issues, including leaking High-Level Nuclear Waste tanks. 
• Citizens' Guide to comment on Proposed 20Year Delay Removing Illegally, Dangerously Stored Wastes at Hanford's Central Waste Complex  - including comparison of agencies' photos from their fact sheet with photos we obtained through Freedom of Information Act.
• Citizens' Guide to comment on USDOE's plans for Hanford Central Plateau GroundwaterUnits  200-BP-5 and 200-PO-1  (July, 2020)
• Enough Plutonium to Make Dozens of Nuclear Weapons - Your Citizens' Guide to 3 Plutonium Disposal Sites (Z-9, Z-2, Z-361) from Plutonium Finishing Plant discharges (June, 2020) 
  
• Citizens' Guide and detailed comments on USDOE's short-circuit of CERCLA processes in proposed demolition for portions of the PUREX plant. August 2019. Will USDOE repeat the disastrous spread of Plutonium during demolition of PUREX that happened during demolition of PFP? 
• USDOE's proposals to rename and abandon High Level Nuclear Waste ("WIR") in Hanford's leaky tanks and soil:PRESENTATION   HoA's Comments to USDOE (Jan 2019)  HoA 2 pg Citizens' Guide
• Columbia River Corridor B and C Reactor Areas Cleanup plan HoANW comments with map showing contaminated areas USDOE plan would not clean up (2018); Yakama Nation comments
• N-Reactor Area Trenches Permit Comments: leaving contamination violates treaty rights, puts public at risk; August 2017
  
• PUREX Tunnel Collapse: USDOE knew of risks for decades; Heart of America NW calls for meetings and removal of extremely radioactive wastes: News release with key facts on radioactive wastes and size of tunnels; KING TV interview with HoANW Director Gerry Pollet; KING TV Invetigative Report documents how USDOE Ignored Reports that the PUREX Tunnels Would Collapse since 1980 (investigation with HoANW assistance)   HoANW comments submitted September 2018
  
• Citizens' Guide to Commenting on Hanford 100 D and H Reactor Areas Cleanup Plan, September 2016
  
• Presentation Guide to Hanford's Central Plateau and how USDOE's proposals will contaminate groundwater and cause significant human health risks; plus, risks from Washington State's unlined, leaking radioactive waste landfill on the Central Plateau
  
• Heart of America Northwest's Comments on Proposed Tri-Party Agreement (TPA) Changes, Which Fail to Require Illegally Stored Waste to be Removed  - August 2015
  
• Your Citizens' Guide to Hanford's Central Plateau, Leaking Tanks, Earthquake Risks, and the Leaking Commercial Radioactive Waste Landfill - Summer 2015
  
• Central Plateau Principles and Earthquake Risks - March 2015
  
• New Report by US Government Accountability Office Confirms Fears that Hanford Single-Shell Tanks May be Leaking - February 2015
  
• The Hazards of High-Level Radioactive Waste in the Pacific Northwest - November 2014 review of spent fuel management at CGS
• Intro to Hanford, Key waste sites and cleanup standards for radioactive wastes - Powerpoint Guide with site photos
  
• Citizens' Guide to F Reactor Area Along the Columbia River - USDOE's Plan Would Take 150 years: With Suggested Comments (July-August, 2014)
  
• USDOE Decisions to Add More Waste to Hanford, Leave Residues In, and NOT Cleanup Leaks From, High-Level Nuclear Waste Tanks - December 2013 decision on Final Tank Closure Waste Management EIS
  
• Powerpoint Guide to Hanford's RCRA Hazardous Waste Permit - Need for Enforceable Schedules to Remove Wastes from Central Waste Complex and other issues (2012, and 2014)
  
• Citizens' Guide to Hanford's RCRA Hazardous Waste Permit: Why Washington State Should Bar USDOE From Adding More Waste to Hanford; Require Clean-Up of 43 Miles of Unlined Ditches (Low-Level Burial Grounds) and Central Waste Complex (May, 2012)
  
• Citizens' Guide to Cleanup of the 300 Area - Columbia Rivershore and Southern Gateway to Hanford Reach National Monument (2013).
  
• Photo of 300 Area and Columbia Rivershore with Explanation of Risks from USDOE Cleanup Plan, which EPA approved in Fall 2013
  
• USDOE Admits Single Shell Tank T-11 is Leaking, Feb, 2013: Heart of America NW News Release
  
• Leaking High-Level Nuclear Waste "Single Shell Tanks": Powerpoint presentation excerpting from Heart of America Northwest report documenting recent leaks from Single Shell Tanks and the need for borehole monitoring - excellent computer simulations and graphics
  
• Citizens' Guide to USDOE's Proposal to Truck and Bury Extremely Radioactive (GTCC) Wastes at Hanford, plus lessons from Fukushima for Hanford (2011)
• Don't see a resource here, or have questions? Email us at office@hoanw.org