Hanford faces deadline crush to sort out grouting options

By John Stang
OLYMPIA, WASH. — The Hanford Site faces an extremely tight schedule to select both a technology and a destination for low-level radioactive waste intended to be immobilized in grout, the site’s top lawyer said here this week.
“It is an aggressive…

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