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RE: Travels With Connie #63 The Hanford Reach
It looks like you had a really nice ride. Nature that you saw looks amazing and so peaceful even though the liquid waste sounds dangerous. I hope it does not destroy it.
It's an ongoing fight. The project is leading the way toward vitrification (encasing waste in glass) but the pace of research necessary is just glacial. They do have a couple of 'ready' tanks for temporary storage but the handling process is very slow. And a few of those tanks hold one million gallons of the junk. The scope is staggering. They hope to be able to start vitrification of 'low level' waste in 2020. High Level is now projected at 2030 and that is optimistic.
Aaaccckkk. Your are correct. It is so beautiful, I am very thankful that I have gotten to enjoy it in my life.