Fernald Cleanup Effort On the Move Again: K-65 Material Shipped to WCS

摘要

For while, it appeared that the ef-fort to clean up and close the U.S. Department of Energy's Fernald site in Ohio by the end of 2006 might be held hostage by the material in the site's Si-los 1 and 2, which was removed from the silos and treated but had no final disposal site. The material had been intended for the Nevada Test Site (NTS). However, Nevada decided the material—residues generated from the processing of high-assay uranium ores—did not meet the criteria for disposal at the NTS and sued the DOE to prevent transport and disposal there. As long as the Silos material remained onsite, the Fernald site could not be officially closed.