Proposal would double nuclear waste imported to Washington. Watchdog groups urge state to ban increase. Members of Congress, Seattle and Portland City Council Members and Citizens Groups say deliberate failure to disclose information should lead to shutdown of FFTF Reactor. Burn of radioactive contaminated soil sites poses health danger. Fire heading towards area of plutonium plants and buried high-level nuclear waste tanks.
Consent decree fails to speed clean-up.
Reactor restart would create up to 60 more tons of high-level nuclear waste at Hanford and require shipping 33 tons of weapons grade plutonium to Hanford, watchdog group charges. Chemicals were illegally stored.