NATION IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON STATE : Nuclear Facility Blast Danger Probed
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) said he wants a new Energy Department safety oversight board to review the possibility that tanks holding radioactive and chemical waste at the Hanford nuclear reservation could explode. A 1984 report concluded the tanks at the reservation in south-central Washington state could explode and scatter radioactivity. A follow-up report, however, essentially dismissed the danger of explosion, according to the lab that prepared both reports.
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