Nuclear Waste Oregon

In 2012 oregon psr and washington psr formed a joint task force on nuclear power to protect the health.

Nuclear waste policy act nepa 1982. A cursory read of the documentation submitted with the toxic waste revealed that the material could not be disposed of in oregon say officials from the nuclear safety division at the oregon. The three main opposition groups were the trojan decommissioning alliance forelaws on the. Oregon passed a moratorium on building new nuclear plants.

There are hundreds of contaminated facilities including nine nuclear production reactors laboratories and large chemical reprocessing plants. Nuclear waste is the only energy resource byproduct that doesnt make it into the environment as it is completely contained. Trojan nuclear power plant was a pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant westinghouse design in the northwest united states located southeast of rainier oregon and the only commercial nuclear power plant to be built in oregon.

There was public opposition to the plant from the design stage. More than 2000 distinct waste sites have been identified at hanford ranging from small areas of surface contamination to hundreds of solid waste burial trenches. Safety resilience get involved erica euen may 15 2019 hanford nuclear waste nuclear safety oregon hanford cleanup board columbia river environment radioactive comment omsi after dark to feature oregon department of energys jeff burright on hanford cleanup and why it matters to oregon.

Environmentalists should be more concerned with wind and solar technology which sends used wind turbines and solar panels to landfills after theyre retired. About 29000 oregonians live in the communities of boardman irrigon hermiston and umatilla which are located within the 50 mile nuclear emergency planning zone for both the hanford site and the columbia generating station cgs nuclear power plant. Health advocates know that the extremely long and dangerous lifespan of radioactive waste means that the most responsible option is for the us and other nations to stop making nuclear waste and to safely store the waste it has already made.

Oar 345 050 outlines the radioactive waste disposal rules in oregon with three tables that list the disposal exemptions such as specific exempt elements naturally occurring elements and exempt quantities.