Hanford Tank Closure and Waste Management, Hanford Site, Richland, WA
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
December 6, 2012
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Hanford Tank Closure and Waste Management, Hanford Site, Richland, WA
This EIS evaluates the environmental impacts for the following three key areas: (1) retrieval, treatment, and disposal of waste from 149 single-shell tanks (SSTs) and 28 double-shell tanks and closure of the SST system, (2) decommissioning of the Fast Flux Test Facility, a nuclear test reactor, and (3) disposal of Hanford’s waste and other DOE sites’ low-level and mixed low-level radioactive waste.