DOE Critics Take Offensive In Battle Over FFTf

摘要

Environmentalists and Oregon lawmakers, citing risks from the use of high-grade plutonium fuel, are protesting apparent Energy Department movement toward reopening Hanford's Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF) for tritium production. At a news conference in Portland, Ore., earlier this month, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Elizabeth Furse (D-Ore.) joined Hanford watchdog groups in charging that tritium production at FFTF would create dangerous new wastes and pose concerns due to transportation of surplus weapons plutonium to Hanford.