Project 2025 calls for massive changes to Hanford nuclear cleanup

[cbabe]

https://www.cascadepbs.org/politics/2024/11/project-2025-calls-massive-changes-hanford-nuclear-cleanup

Project 2025 calls for massive changes to Hanford nuclear cleanup
The Heritage Foundation's blueprint proposes reclassifying radioactive waste as something less dangerous so it can be disposed of more cheaply.

by John Stang / November 20, 2024

Will the next presidential administration tinker with the Hanford nuclear reservation’s complicated cleanup of radioactive wastes?

Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s conservative blueprint for the future, offers some strong hints that cleanup plans for the nation’s most polluted nuclear site might change with or without the approval of the Washington Department of Ecology.

One Project 2025 idea recommends reclassifying highly radioactive wastes into something less dangerous so cheaper methods can be used to dispose of them. Another proposal is to speed up the cleanup by rerouting money to Hanford from a couple of huge Biden-era appropriations for jobs and infrastructure programs elsewhere. The third Hanford-related idea in Project 2025 posits that the state of Washington and the legally negotiated cleanup deadlines and standards are obstacles to completing the cleanup faster.

Gov. Jay Inslee’s office, the Washington Attorney General’s Office and the state Ecology Department all declined to comment on Project 2025’s plans for Hanford. However, Attorney General and Gov.-elect Bob Ferguson and Attorney General-elect Nick Brown recently held a press conference to announce the AG’s office and have spent months reviewing Project 2025 in preparation for possible litigation with the Trump administration. Ferguson and Brown said the ball is in the Trump administration’s court on whether it will provoke legal battles with Washington.

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(Cheaper methods. Insane.)

[Johnny2X2X]

1. Here's what I say

Sign up 500 trump voters who did their nuclear research on Youtuibe and give them the cleanup contract.

[maxsolomon]

6. There's probably 500 Trump voters who work at Hanford doing cleanup already.

It is Eastern WA...

[Wounded Bear]

8. If not more...

[Freethinker65]

2. How about require any for profit real estate development with cost over $500k/unit to use the waste as backfill?

Project 2025 deems the radioactive waste "safe" using their new criteria, so there should be no objections from developers nor their future tenants.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Deregulation means more money for the billionaires and corrupt politicians.

They don't care if more people die or are injured.

The concepts of public service and common good are only for suckers and losers.

[Initech]

4. They would bring back asbestos and lead paint if given the opportunity.

[Blue Full Moon]

7. They did that here in Ohio when Kasich took office

[sakabatou]

5. Yeah, who cares if a needed water supply gets irradiated

We need cheaper, and less effective methods!

[keithbvadu2]

9. Declare it safe and use it as fill for Mar a Lago and his other golf courses and vineyards.

[Oneironaut]

10. Which low-income minority neighborhood(s) are they planning to dump the waste in?

[Sewa]

11. When the layoffs start at Hanford I'll

Tell my coworkers, this is what you voted for ASSHOLE.