Spokane mayor fights plan to move nuclear waste through city
Spokane mayor Lisa Brown is raising red flags about a plan to move liquid nuclear waste from Hanford through her city.
She wrote a letter to the federal Department of Energy, the EPA, and Washington’s Department of Ecology asking those agencies to reconsider a plan for trucks filled with the waste to travel Eastbound I-90 out of Washington on their way to Utah and Texas.
The 2,000 gallons set to be moved are just a tiny portion of the 56 million gallons sitting under the Hanford site, north of the Tri-Cities, that needs to be disposed of.
This may feel like a Cold War-era legacy but…
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