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Framatome Plans Waste Lagoon, Soil Removal at Richland, Wash., Nuclear Plant.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2004

By John Stang, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jan. 14--A public comment period is under way for a Framatome ANP plan to remove six waste lagoons and some contaminated soil.

Washington's Department of Ecology and Framatome have tentatively agreed on a plan to begin removing the lagoons this year and finish the project in 2006.

The 7-foot-deep lagoons range from 42,000 square feet to 91,200 square feet.

Framatome fabricates nuclear reactor fuel assemblies in a northern Richland plant.

Until a few years ago, chemicals and radioactive uranium wastes from the fabrication process were stored in lagoons at the plant. Then the plant converted to a process that stores the wastes in...

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